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The Yoga Vasishta of Valmiki is a monumental spiritual work containing the teaching of Vasishta to Rama. For countless it has inspired and guided the spiritual seekers. Academic scholars have long neglected the work for no right reasons and a proper study of it is sure to re-orient the attitude of the intellectuals to the non-dual reality and the world-process and convince them that the final Advaitic Teaching is not that the world is an illusion but it is ...
From the introduction: "The Deccan plateau of South India is fringed on the western side by a narrow mountain range extending in the north-south direction and facing the Arabian sea. This undulating range of hills of varying altitudes called the western ghats gently slopes to the sea, forming a narrow coastal belt criss-crossed by many fast flowing rivers. By virtue of its geographical location, topography and rainfall from both the north-east and south-west ...
Through his counseling spread over two thirds of the work, Vasishta prepares the mind of the work, Vasishta prepares the mind of Rama to accept the final truth, that the world does not exist, that the avidhya does not exist and the non-dual blissful Brahman is ever manifest. The beautiful aspect is that at the end, it is the disciple who proclaims so. A distraught Jiva tossed about like a straw by the rough waves of the ocean of life floats now at the ...