The Concise Yoga Vasistha
by Swami Venkatesananda
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Author: Swami VenkatesanandaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1985-05-31
ISBN: 087395954X
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: State University of New York Press
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Summary: 5 Stars
"The Concise Yoga Vasistha" is a great book and should be read by all individuals who seek the path to enlightenment. However, personally, I found this book very difficult reading because of the extreme repetition of most of its concepts, the use of many Sanskrit terms, and the use of many gods, goddesses, demons, celestial beings, nymphs, and other "magical beings." However, when one edits it down to its basic truths of spiritual and material existence, and the paths leading to enlightenment, it is a fantastic book.
What I am about to suggest may seem to some individuals to be for personal gain by me, but actually, in making the following suggestion, I am only trying to give those individuals interested in pursuing a path to enlightenment, a more easily understood, updated, and simplified rendition of the same "truths" as those presented in "The Concise Yoga Vasistha."
I am suggesting that those individual interested in pursuing a path to spiritual enlightenment also examine two other books that I have written - "From Creation to Eternity-2nd Edition" and "A Grand View of Existence."
Both of these books attempt to "bridge science and spitituality" by presenting, in modern vocabulary and current concepts -- in simplified quantum theory, physiologic functioning of our "matter" bodies and brain/minds, and the extreme importance of the power that the self created "Ego" of our psyches exerts over all of our lives and our actions -- insights into the same truths as those discussed in "The Concise Yoga Vasistha" about our Creative Source, our "matter" universe, and the quantum interface that connects the two others. Our egos produce and control all negative beliefs and actions (greed, prejudice, hatred, envy, jealousy, hostility, killings, and wars) within our brain/minds by the use of the "Illusion of Separation," which actually exists as "Unity" of all things. This "Illusion of Separation," by our egos, is interpreted as separate individual objects in our matter universe (by our brain/minds), which are actually only ever interchanging energy patters of our "Creative Source's" Universal "Mind" or "Consciousness."
This ego "chatter' of our brain/minds, and our "attachment" to all things of this matter universe must be quieted, through the process of meditation, in order to proceed on our paths to enlightenment.
Raymond J. Jerome--Author of "From Creation to Eternity-2nd Edition" and "A Grand View of Existence"-- both carried by Amazon.com
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