Йога Васиштха - 5.8. Повесть о Бхасе и Виласе - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

5.8. The story of Bhasa and Vilas

Vasishtha continued:

Oh frame, until you defeat the mind with the help of reason, it is impossible to achieve an understanding of your truth, and while you have illusory concepts of “I” and “mine” - suffering will not end, as the painted sun will never sit. I have a legend illustrating this truth. I'll tell you now.

Once there was a huge mountain of three worlds, placed on each other. The gods live at its top, people live in the middle and creatures from the other world live at the base. This mountain is called sahya. She, as it were, contains everything at once. On this mountain there was the monastery of the Wise men atri. Two sages lived in it - Braspati and Sukra, each of them had a son, and their name was Vilas and Bhas. Two boys grew up in young men. They became very attached to each other and were inseparable.

At one time, two senior sages, Braxpati and Sukra, left this world. Struck by sadness, two young people performed all the necessary funeral rituals. Due to heavy losses, they were no longer interested in economics, wealth, etc., and both of them went into the forest in opposite directions to lead a wandering lifestyle. After a rather long time, they met again.

Vilasa told his friend Bhase:

What a blessing to meet you again, my dear friend! Tell me about what you have been doing since we broke up. Did your torture of the body and spirit bring the results? Was your mind freed from the burning heat of worldly life? Did you realize your true nature? Tell me - are you healthy and happy?

Bhasa replied:

I was unusually lucky to meet you again, my dear friend and brother. Can we wanderers in this world be peaceful and happy until we have reached the highest truth, until the psychological distortion stopped? Until we cross this ocean of the cycle of this world, can we be calm and happy? So far, hopes and desires, generation of the mind, are not completely destroyed - how can we be calm and happy?

Until we achieve the knowledge of ourselves, we will return again and again to this measurement of death and birth, in order to pass childhood, youth, the heyday of strength, old age and death again - again and again we will perform the same meaningless actions and gain one and that the same experience. Desire kills wisdom. Less and less remains of life, it is lost in satisfaction of sensual appetites. Reason falls into a well of sensual pleasures. It is amazing how and why this body, a wonderful help to move to the other side of the self-knowledge, becomes a victim of worldly life! In the blink of an eye, the small hazel of the mind acquires huge proportions. By stupidity, a person ascribes to himself the suffering and sadness, which actually have nothing to do with him, and becomes unhappy from this.

Vasishtha continued:

So talking to each other and supporting deep discussions about the nature of this world, they reached the highest truth. Therefore, about the frame, I tell you that there is no other way to free from the Put and cross the ocean of illusions, except for self -knowledge. For this ocean who has known the truth, there is no more than a small puddle. He considers the body as the viewer looks at the remote crowd. Therefore, the pain that the body experiences does not concern it. The existence of the body does not reduce the ubiquity of consciousness - as waves do not reduce the fullness of the ocean.

How are swan, stone and a log with water surrounding them? Also, the highest I have nothing to do with this world. A falling tree can raise waves in water - it seems like the feeling of the highest and pains caused by the body. As due to proximity to water, a tree reflects in it, so the body is reflected in the highest Self. But as a stone falling into the water does not damage it and does not damage it itself, and the body, getting into contact with other material objects (such as the wife as the wife , children or material objects), does not cause anyone to harm anyone, nor pain, and is not affected by itself.
The reflection of the subject in the mirror cannot be called real or unreal, its reality is indescribable - so the body reflected in the highest self, neither real nor unreal, its reality is indescribable. A stupid person accepts as real what he sees in this world, but he does not do the wise. As a piece of wood and the water in which it is reflected is not connected by real relations, the body is not connected with the highest Self. Moreover, where such relations could exist, there is no duality. There is only one endless consciousness, without subject-object divisions. In it, the diversity is only imagined, and the fact that truly is not affected by suffering, believes that it is unhappy - just like the one who believes that the ghost sees, sees the ghost! Due to the strength of the imagination of the mind, this imaginary relationship becomes actual power. The highest I am not affected by pain and pleasures, but, considering myself body, it is subjected to perceptions of the body. The rejection of such a stupid statement is release.

Those who did not succumb to false identifications and attached