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Chapter I: Front Matter

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Anecdote of Indra and an account of the 56
Atomic World

CHAPTER XIV.

Story of Indrání; and Establishment of 60
the identity of the acts of Creation and
imagination

CHAPTER XV.

The Final Extinction of the Vidyádhara 64

CHAPTER XVI.

Extinction of Vidyádhara (continued) 67

CHAPTER XVII.

Lecture on the Annihilation of Egoism 69

CHAPTER XVIII.

Description of the Universal sphere 71

CHAPTER XIX.

Description of the Form of Virát or the 77
all comprehending Deity

CHAPTER XX.

Lecture on the Extinction of the Living 82
soul

CHAPTER XXI.

What constitutes True knowledge 85

CHAPTER XXII.

The yoga conducive to Happiness or the 87
way to Happiness

CHAPTER XXIII.

Story of a Pious Bráhmana and his 95
Nirvána-Extinction

CHAPTER XXIV.

Indifference or Insouciance of Manki to 101
Worldliness

CHAPTER XXV.

Vasishtha’s Admonition to Manki 104

CHAPTER XXVI.

Manki’s attainment of Final Extinction 109
or Nirvána

CHAPTER XXVII.

Sermon on the superior sort of yoga 115
meditation

CHAPTER XXVIII.

Demonstrated conclusion of the Doubtful 118
Truth

CHAPTER XXIX.

Sermon on Holy Meditation 123

CHAPTER XXX.

Sermon on spirituality 133

CHAPTER XXXI.

Sermon on the Means of Attaining the 137
Nirvána Extinction

CHAPTER XXXII.

Sermon inculcating the knowledge of 143
truth

CHAPTER XXXIII.

Sermon on the True sense of Truth 147

CHAPTER XXXIV.

Sermon on the Practice of spiritual yoga 153
or intellectual meditation

CHAPTER XXXV.

Description of the Supreme Brahma 159

CHAPTER XXXVI.

Sermon on the seed or source of the 164
world

CHAPTER XXXVII.

A Lecture on the visibles and Visible 170
world

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

Disquisition of Nirvána-quietism 181

CHAPTER XXXIX.

Vasishtha’s Gítá or sermon on the sweet 187
peace of mind

CHAPTER XL.

On the Quiescence of the soul 192

CHAPTER XLI.

Repose in one’s essential Nature 194

CHAPTER XLII.

A Lecture on Nirvána-Extinction 198

CHAPTER XLIII.

On the infinite Extension of Brahma 205

CHAPTER XLIV.

Dangers to which the wandering 213
(staglike) Mind is exposed

CHAPTER XLV.

Continuation of the story of the Deer 219
like mind

CHAPTER XLVI.

On abstract meditation and Hypnotism 227

CHAPTER XLVII.

The first step towards Liberation 230

CHAPTER XLVIII.

On the Dignity of Right Discrimination 236

CHAPTER XLIX.

Total stoicism and insouciance 241

CHAPTER L.

Description of the seven kinds of Living 248
beings

CHAPTER LI.

Admonition to Arrive at the yoga of 252
Ultimate Rest

CHAPTER LII.

Description of the Form and Attributes 258
of Brahma

CHAPTER LIII.

Explanation of Nirvána-Anaesthesia 264

CHAPTER LIV.

Establishment of the undivided 267
individuality of God

CHAPTER LV.

The spiritual sense of the world 272

CHAPTER LVI.

Story of the Great stone and Vasishtha’s 276
Meditation

CHAPTER LVII.

On the knowledge of the known and 281
unknown

CHAPTER LVIII.

Proving the creation as Divine Attribute 285

CHAPTER LIX.

Description of the Net work of the world 288

CHAPTER LX.

The Net works of World (continued) 295

CHAPTER LXI.

On the identity of the world with 302
infinite vacuity

CHAPTER LXII.

The unity of the intellect with the 307
intellectual World

CHAPTER LXIII.

Unity of the universe with the universal 313
soul

CHAPTER LXIV.

Sport of the heavenly Nymphs 318

CHAPTER LXV.

Life and conduct of the Etherial Nymph 326

CHAPTER LXVI.

Description of the inside of the stony 329
mansion of the World

CHAPTER LXVII.

Praise of continued practice or the 333
Force of Habit

CHAPTER LXVIII.

The Fallacy of the Existence of the 339
World

CHAPTER LXIX.

Entrance into the Cosmical stone of 345
Mundane Egg

CHAPTER LXX.

The words of the creator of Worlds in 349
the Mundane stone

CHAPTER LXXI.

Description of final Dissolution 353

CHAPTER LXXII.

Description of Nirvána or Final 360
extinction

CHAPTER LXXIII.

Description of the person of Virát—the 364
God of Nature

CHAPTER LXXIV.

Description of the cosmical Body of 371
Virát (continued)

CHAPTER LXXV.

Description of the Final conflagration 376
of the world

CHAPTER LXXVI.

The stridor of Pushkarávarta clouds 383

CHAPTER LXXVII.

Description of the world overflooded by 388
the rains

CHAPTER LXXVIII.

Description of the universal Ocean 394

CHAPTER LXXIX.

Maintenance of inappetency or want of 398
Desire

CHAPTER LXXX.

The world Proved to be a Delusion 404

CHAPTER LXXXI.

Description of the last night of death 411
or general doom

CHAPTER LXXXII.

Description of the person of the God 423
Siva

CHAPTER LXXXIII.

Sight of the Mundane God 427

CHAPTER LXXXIV.

Relation of Siva and Sakti or of the 431
holy spirit and its power

CHAPTER LXXXV.

Relation of Nature and soul or the Prime 438
Male and Female Powers

CHAPTER LXXXVI.

The Convertibility of the World to the 442
Supreme Spirit

CHAPTER LXXXVII.

The infinity of the World shown in the 449
Material body

CHAPTER LXXXVIII.

Further Description of earth 458

CHAPTER LXXXIX.

The Phenomenal as the Reproduction of 461
Reminiscence

CHAPTER LXXXX.

Description of the Watery creation 465

CHAPTER LXXXXI.

Description of Igneous, Luminous and 469
Brilliant Objects in nature

CHAPTER LXXXXII.

Description of the current air, as the 477
universal spirit

CHAPTER LXXXXIII.

The Advent and Psalmody of a siddha in 484
the Aerial Abode of Vasishtha

CHAPTER LXXXXIV.

Description of a Pisácha, and the unity 495
of the world with Brahma

CHAPTER LXXXXV.

Description of the person of Vasishtha 505

CHAPTER LXXXXVI.

Establishment of immortality 509

CHAPTER LXXXXVII.

On the Rarity and Retiredness of 514
Religious Recluses

CHAPTER LXXXXVIII.

Praise of good society, or association 520
with the good and wise

CHAPTER LXXXXIX.

A Discourse on Esoteric or Spiritual 523
knowledge

CHAPTER C.

Refutation of Atheism 530

CHAPTER CI.

A Sermon on spirituality 537

CHAPTER CII.

Exposition of Buddhism and disproving of 542
Deaths

CHAPTER CIII.

Proof of the unity of the Deity amidst 549
the variety of creation

CHAPTER CIV.

Establishment of the Non-entity of the 561
world

CHAPTER CV.

Likeness of Waking and sleeping Dreams 563

YOGA VASISHTHA.

UTTARÁDHA

OR THE LATTER HALF OR SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NIRVÁNA PRAKARANA.

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