ON LIBERATION..........................This Infinite Consciousness has, as it were, assumed the nature of the jiva(individual soul), and oblivious of its true nature, it experiences whatever it thinks of as being. Even as to the child the unreal ghost it visualizes at night is truly real, the jiva conceives of the five elements which it sees as existing. These are nothing but notions of the jiva; however, the jiva sees them as if they are outside it. It thinks that some are within and others are outside of it. And so it experiences them. Knowledge is inherent in consciousness, even as void is in space. However, consciousness believes knowledge to be its own object. The diverse objects are limited by time and space, which are themselves but the notional division in consciousness brought about by this division (OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND KNOWLEDGE, AS SUBJECT AND OBJECT) within itself. Such division does not exist in the Self(GOD), which transcends time and space. However, the Infinite Consciousness with knowledge inherent in it conceives of diverse creatures. Such is its power, which no one can challenge. The inert space is unable to reflect itself within itself. But because its is Infinite Consciousness, Brahman[The Lord] reflects itself within itself and conceives of itself as a duality, though it is bodiless. Whatever this consciousness thinks of, that it sees as existing; its concepts and notions are never barren. In a golden bracelet there are these two---gold and bracelet---one being the reality (gold) and the other being the APPEARANCE (of bracelet). Even so, in the Self there are both consciousness and the notion of material (inert) substantiality. Since Consciousness is omnipresent , it is ever present in THE MIND in which the notion arises..........................The Concise Yoga VASISTHA pgs. 313 & 314 Translated by Swami Venkatesananda
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