YVM | SELECT | V1 | B2 | CH XIX

YOGA VASISHTHA | MITRA | VOL 1 | BOOK II | CHAP XIX

|| VERSE 09 | ASCERTAINMENT OF TRUE EVIDENCE ||

Let the wise continue their inquiries until they can obtain their internal peace , and until they may arrive at the fourth stage ( turiya ) of felicity known by the name of indestructible tranquility .

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YOGA VASISHTHA | MITRA | VOL 1 | BOOK II | CHAP XIX

|| VERSE 10 | ASCERTAINMENT OF TRUE EVIDENCE ||

Whoso has gained this fourth state of tranquil felicity , has really passed beyond the limits of the ocean of the world

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YOGA VASISHTHA | MITRA | VOL 1 | BOOK II | CHAP XIX

|| VERSE 31 | ASCERTAINMENT OF TRUE EVIDENCE ||

Wherever the Universal Soul appears Itself in any light , It remains there and then , in the same form in which It exhibits Itself unto us .

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YOGA VASISHTHA | MITRA | VOL 1 | BOOK II | CHAP XIX

|| VERSE 32 | ASCERTAINMENT OF TRUE EVIDENCE ||

The Universal Soul being alike in all , the looker and the object seen are both the same being .

The looker and the looked being one , their appearance as otherwise is all unreal .

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YOGA VASISHTHA | MITRA | VOL 1 | BOOK II | CHAP XIX

|| VERSE 33 | ASCERTAINMENT OF TRUE EVIDENCE ||

Hence the world is without a cause . All existence is evidently BRAHMAN Itself , the perceptible cause of all .

Hence perception is the basis of evidence , and inference and others as analogy and verbal testimony are but parts of it .