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“Nothing could ever satiate the insatiable hunger, of this big bellied monster; nor satisfy her lickerish tongue, which was always stretched out like a flame of fire. Yet, the man who has got rid of his egoism by the subsidence of his selfishness in himself, is indifferent to pain and pleasure, as the satiate are to the taste of sweet or sour.”

“We are born to the doom of death, but let us not die to be reborn to the miseries of life and death again. It is for the wise and learned to betake themselves to that state, which is free from these pains. Learn to sink all your pains in your spirit. That is what is was meant for. And thus you should go on without pain or sorrow in your life. Why do you wish to have what you have not, and dare to leave what you have already got?”

“Granting, thou art a reality and the world is unreal, still there can be no agreement between you, as there is none between the living and the dead, and between the positive and negative ideas. People are verily killed by an antagonist, who is present before them; but it is a wonder that the ignorant are foiled by the inexistent mind of their own making.”

“You will be freed from desire after death. Your desires being dead with themselves, they have nothing to desire. Mind here, for it is all but a delusion that is presented before us in this illusive world; while in truth we have nobody, whom we may call to be our real friends or positive enemies in this world.”

Kraler, M. (2021). Tracing Vivekananda’s Prana and Akasa: The Yogavasistha and Rama Prasad’s Occult Science of Breath. The Occult Nineteenth Century: Roots, Developments, and Impact on the Modern World, 373.

 

Olivelle, P. (1997). Bhaskarakanthas Moksopaya-Tika, 2. Prakarana (Mumuksuvya-vahara). The Journal of the American Oriental Society, 117(1), 204-205.