Axial Commons
Invalidation of the Doctrine of cause and effect 569
Vedic / Vedanta
Yoga Vasistha (Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana)
The nature of ignorance or illusion of the Mind 577
Description of the knowledge and ignorance of the soul 579
Fighting with the invading armies at the gate of the city 585
Battle of the wise Princes, with the ignorant Barbarian 590
The flight of the soldiers on all sides 596
Flight of the Foreign Fœs 602
Description of the Ocean 607
Description of the Prospects all-around 612
The same subject continued 617
Narration of the speech of Crow and Cuckoo 625
Description of the Lotus lake, Bee and the Swan 637
Description of deer, peacocks, cranes &c. 643
Lamentation of the Lovelorn Traveller 648
Description of various objects on all sides 652
Exposition of the story of Vipaschit 657
The King’s survey of the sea, and his locomotion on it 659
The King’s Excursions on all sides 662
Quadripartite state of the King Vipaschit 665
On the Living liberation of the Prince 669
Resuscitation and conduct of the Vipaschitas 679
Cosmology of the universe 683
The vacuum of Brahma and the sight of the world therein 686
Vipaschit’s becoming a stag 692
Entering of the stag into the fire 698
Bhása’s account of the worlds and his journeys throughout 702
Bhása’s Relation of the Transmigrations of his soul 710
Story of the Wonderful carcass 713
The Story of the carcass continued 717
Disappearance of the carcass, and the Reappearance of the earth 724
Story of the Gnat and Hunter 726
Description of the states of waking, sleeping and dreaming 730
The Pervasion of the mind throughout the universe 737
Description of the Dissolution of the world 742
Workings of Imagination 750
Description of the Termination of a Kalpa-period 758
Ascertainment of Karma or acts of men 760
Ascertainment of Nirvána or ultimate Extinction 767
Investigation into the nature and Vicissitudes of things 778
Description of the Waking, Dreaming and Sleeping states 785
Disquisition of sound sleep 794
The Phenomenon and Perspection of dreams 798
Investigation into the nature of dreams 802
Investigation into the Original cause 807
View of Inexistence 818
The sage’s discourse at night 820
One soul is the cause of all 823
Relation of Past events 826
Relation of Future Fortune 829
Expostulation on Sindhu by his Minister 835
The Ultimate Extinction or Nirvána of Sindhu 839
Fall of the Huge body of the Hunter 844
Wandering of Vipaschit 847
Description of heaven and Hell 855
Explanation of Nirvána 861
Annihilation of ignorance 867
Means and manner of governing the senses and sensible organs 870
Unity of the Divinity and the Mundane World 878
On the Similarity of Waking and Dreaming 880
On the Attributes of the Divine spirit, in the form of a
Absence of the threefold states of Waking, Dreaming and Sleep 888
Story of the Hewn statue or Carved Image 894
Description of the calm and tranquil Mind 901
On the conduct of the sapient Man 907
Meditation of Pure Vacuum 911
Establishment of the identity of the Diety and the World 918
Brahma Gítá or a Lecture on spirituality 924
The same or a lecture on Nirvána 929
Paramártha Gítá or Lecture on Transcendentalism or the solity 933
Brahma Gítá. Account of Brahmánda or Mundane system 943
Brahma Gíta. Description of Divine Nature 946
Brahma Gíta. Narrative of Aindava 952
The Doctrine of Pantheism or the One as all 960
Brahma Gíta or the story on austere devotee 963
Brahma Gíta continued 968
Brahma Gíta continued. Sovereignty of the seven continents 973
Description of the seven Continents 979
A Lecture on the all comprehensiveness of the soul 988
Admonition to and clairvoyance of Kunda-danta 995
Demonstration of all nature (and thing) as Brahma himself 998
Of the Living creation 1009
Description of the Living soul 1017
On the unity of the Divine spirit 1021
Ecstasies or inertness of Ráma 1024
Solution of the great question of unity and duality 1037
On the attainment of spiritual Anæsthesia 1040
Mental torpor or tranquility 1043
Lectured on the Enlightenment of Understanding 1051
Story of wood-cutter and his gem 1060
On the Excellence of Universal Toleration 1064
Excellence of Universal Toleration 1069
State of Living Liberated Man 1075
The Loud applause of the court on the sage’s speech 1081
Explanation of rest and repose in ultimate and perfect bliss 1089
Remembrance of the assembly to their Hypnotic rest 1094
Description of Nirvána or self extinction in divine meditation 1096
Identity of Abstract Intellectuality and Vacuity 1102
Reputation of the doctrine of the causality of creation 1106
The great inquiry, or questions of the Buddhist 1112
Replies to the aforesaid queries (of the Buddhist) 1117