Verse 102 (of 163) from the Vijnana Bhairava:
“If one perceives the cosmos as mere jugglery conjured up by some magician, or as the configuration of a painting, or as illusory as the movement of trees, etc. (appearing to people seated on a moving boat), and contemplates deeply over this fact, then he will experience great happiness.”
This work gives 112 ways to enter into the universal and transcendental state of consciousness – see Wikipedia article of “Vijnana Bhairava” at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijnana_Bhairava
This work is published in cloth and paper in India under the title: VIJNANABHAIRAVA OR DIVINE CONSCIOUSNESS: A TREASURY OF 112 TYPES OF YOGA. By Jaideva Singh. Sanskrit text with English translation, expository notes, introduction, and glossary of technical terms. ISBN: 81-208-0820-7 (paperback).
From the book jacket, this work “is a very ancient book on Yoga. It studiously eschews mechanical worship, external rites and cermonies and goes directly to the heart of the problem of the union of human consciousness with the Divine. There is no theoretical discussion the book. It describes 112 types of yoga each of which is a precious gem delineating the mystic approach to the Divine. For this purpose, it makes full use of all the aspects of human life–prana, manas [Book’s glossary about manas: the internal sense, the empirical mind. See Wikipedia article on Mind: aspects of intellect and consciousness manifested as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will and imagination; mind is the stream of consciousness. It includes all of the brain’s conscious processes.], imagination and intuition… includes many practical suggestions made by Swami Laksmana Joo on the basis of his personal experience of these Yogas.”
Says the author Singh, “There is hardly any other book on yoga which ahas described so many ways of approach to Central Reality that is present in each man as his essential Self. It is both extensive, and intensive in the treatment of the subject of yoga… I express my sincerest gratitude to Svami Laksmana Joo who has kindly taught this book to me word by word.”
How does one “open” as you have experienced this?
I would be most eager to hear of “open” approaches to reality that, apparently, view mind’s play as an ongoing movie.
Is spirituality all work and no play? How does one drop searching and effort, to let in what of God is available to be experienced by all?
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