“What is this world? Who are all these people?
From where do these varieties of beings arise and dissolve into?
What is this thing called mind?
How will it subside?
How this delusion came to be and how will it be removed?
What will happen if Maayaa is removed? Will everything remain as it is or the purpose of
living itself will be lost?
How did the limitations arise in the Self?
What did the Sage advice about the control of the mind?
What did he say about sense control?
What were his elaborate discussions on terms like Jeeva, Chitta, mind, Maayaa etc?
Self alone appears as this expansive world appearance! The world is made of only the
strings rising from the mind!
How will I treat this pain-giving diseased mind?
How will I save this intellect-child lost in the clouds of pleasures?
How will I separate it out like the swan dr rinking only milk from the milk-water mixture?
It is difficult to keep the mind away from pleasures; yet without renouncing the pleasures
we cannot ascend the ladder of wisdom!
Ah! Vaasanaas infect this mind and will lead to endless troubles!
Mind alone can aspire for the Self realization; yet it acts deluded and runs after pleasures
like the child possessed by a ghost!
When will my mind remain blissful ? [like the girl lost in her lover’s thought uninterested in
all the worldly affairs!]
When will my mind rest in the quiescent state and get established in the state of the Self?
When will I cross over the ocean of Samsaara and be freed of this fever!
O my mind! When will you lose all your attachments and get the vision of knowledge?
I will never again get trapped in the terms denoting relationships like-‘father’, ‘mother’,
‘son’ etc. which only give endless pains.
O my sister intelligence! Please rescue me from this suffering and analyze well what the
Sage said!
O my mind! O good lady! O good daughter (reborn by the company of the knowledge
given by the Sage)! I fall at your feet and plead! Become stable and get ready to destroy
this delusion of the world appearance!
Sage first explained about ‘Dispassion’.
Then he mentioned the disciplines to be adopted by the seeker after[of] liberation.
Then he explained about the emergence of this world appearance.
Later he discussed about how the mind keeps this world going on for ever by
its conceiving power!
Remember all that he said and revise them again and again!”