Nectar drops from Yogavāsiṣṭha - 3

[S Jayanarayanan]

( From "Voice of Jagadguru", September 2018:
https://portal.voiceofjagadguru.com/uploads/magazines/69c923983ce47_main.pdf )
 
 
(Continued from the previous post.)
 
 
ग्रन्थवेशः our Journey into the Grantha.
 
It is destroyer of all misery (and) a great comforter of the heart. It ends (both) pleasure and pain and is the one cause of Supreme Bliss.
The intellect of one who hears this (scriptures) daily, attains enlightenment even beyond perception (or ordinary knowledge). There is no
doubt (about this).
 
As there is freedom from disease quite spontaneously when a good medicine is taken, so the state of liberation while living is indeed
experienced when this (scripture) is heard. When this is heard, a man will cross over all delusion as (one crosses over) to the further bank
of an ocean by a bridge of possessing great excellence.
 
This mankind will cross over this peril of worldly existence speedily by this work. As (one crosses over) the ocean quickly by a boat.
 
What is here (in this work), that is elsewhere. What is not here, that is nowhere. The wise consider this as the repository of all scriptures
of Higher Knowledge.
 
Introduction to the Story of the Conversation between Vasishtha and Rama.
 
A certain Brahmana, Sutiksna, with his mind dragged by doubt, having gone to the hemitage of Agasti, asked the sage with respect.
“Having ascertained whether action is the cause of liberation or knowledge the means of liberation, or else both, tell (me) the one means”.
 
Agasti said:
 
In this matter I shall tell you an ancient history. In olden times, there was a certain Brahmana called Karuna, son of Agniveshya, who had
studied the Vedas and had completely mastered the Vedas and Vedangas (the auxiliary portions of the Vedas). Having learnt scriptural knowledge
from the Guru, he came back to his house.
 
Then he stayed with his parents in his house silently without performing any work or religious rites and irresolute. Then, Angivesya,
his father, having observed his son not involving in the religious rites, told these words to his son Karuna for his benefit.
 
 
(To be Continued)