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Yoga-Vāsistha, Book 6: Nirvāna-Prakarana (On ultimate extinction). Chapter 73 - End of the story of the Vetāla Demon
Vasistha resumed- After hearing these words from the mouth of the prince, the Vetāla held his peace and quiet, and remained reflecting on them in his mind, which was capable of reasoning.
Being then quite calm in his mind, he reflected on the pure doctrines of the prince; and being quite absorbed in his fixed meditation, he forgot at once his hunger and thirst.
I have thus related to you, Rāma, about the questions of the Vetāla, and the manner in which these worlds are situated in the atom of the intellect and no where else.
The world residing in the cell of the atomic intellect, ceases to subsist by itself upon right reasoning; so the body of a ghost exists in the fancy of boys only, and there remains nothing at last except the everlasting one.
Curb and contract your thought and heart from every thing, and enclose your inward soul in itself; do what you hast to do at any time, without desiring or attempting anything of your own will, and thus have the peace of your mind.
Employ your mind, O silent sage! to keep itself as clean as the clear firmament, remain in one even and peaceful tenor of your soul, and view all things in one and the same light; 1.
A steady and dauntless mind with its promptness in action, is successful in most arduous undcrtakings, as was the prince Bhagīratha with his unsevering perseverance.
It was by his perfectly peaceful and contended mind, and by the lasting felicity of the equanimity of his soul, that this prince succeeded to bring down the heavenly Ganges on earth, and the princes of Sagar's line were enabled to perform the arduous task of digging the Bay of Bengal. 2
Footnotes
1. of tolerance and Catholicism
2. Where they were buried alive by curse of the sage Kapila, for disturbing his silent meditations
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