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 ...