0760 Section 6.2, Chapter 45 (continued) Yoga Vasishta

The attainment of the highest is where the notion of objects is abandoned. There is only the beginingless endless Brahman. Rest in the supreme self. All division melts into nothingness.

Realising this is meditation. You cannot meditate in ignorance nor can meditation release you from ignorance. It is not about faith or hope. Meditation is enlightenment practice. It is right liberation. If liberation has not been touched then it cannot be practised. It must be stumbled upon at first.

All worldly perceptions have lost their attraction. This is samadhana, equanimity, or the wisdom of equal vision. The field of experiencing is no longer filtered into likes and dislikes. The label of 'dream' or 'void' can be slapped onto all notions of external reality.

There is nobody to experience anything.

Ignorance is the identifying of the moving attention with its notions.

Meditation is the natural resting of the attention in its own nature. However, the latent tendencies can still distract.

The world is both rejected and completely accepted.

Touching self-knowledge is easy. Establishment in it takes great effort.

Disinterested in objects is cultivated until not even the gods can disturb one's meditation - vajra-dhyanam.

Scriptures, company of holy ones, meditation. This is the context of the life of the enlightenment practitioner. It is not about subscribing to a set of ideas or memories or notions.

The realisation needs to be fresh and refreshed from moment to moment.

Ignorance is being convinced in dry wood and stone.

Enlightenment is experiencing the world as one self.

Turiya, samadhi is the natural state. Conditioning of the mind ceases. There is only awareness.

Text: http://www.venkatesaya.com Yoga Vasistha Book 2, June 10

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