YVM | SELECT | V2.1 | B3 | CH LXXXXIX + CII + CX

YOGA VASISHTHA | MITRA | VOL 2.1 | BOOK III | CHAP LXXXXIX

|| VERSE 36 | HISTORY OF THE HEART CONTINUED ||

One that afflicts oneself by one's own desires , and then flies to this way and that , signifies one's fool-heartedness to hunt after everything , and be a runaway from one's Self .

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YOGA VASISHTHA | MITRA | VOL 2.1 | BOOK III | CHAP LXXXXIX

|| VERSE 38 | HISTORY OF THE HEART CONTINUED ||

All these ceaseless woes are the making of one's own mind , which being worried at last by its incessant anxieties , strives to retire from them , to find its final repose in Yoga < : " union with " GOD : > .

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YOGA VASISHTHA | MITRA | VOL 2.1 | BOOK III | CHAP LXXXXIX

|| VERSE 42 | HISTORY OF THE HEART CONTINUED ||

No flight can release the mind , unless it is practised to resignation , restrained from its other pursuits , and constrained to the continued practice of pious meditation , which can only relieve its sorrows .

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YOGA VASISHTHA | MITRA | VOL 2.1 | BOOK III | CHAP CII

|| VERSE 09 | ON THE INDIVISIBILITY & IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL ||

Why do you think the unconfined Soul to be confined in the body ? It is vain to suppose the nature of the Infinite Soul , to be confined in any place .

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YOGA VASISHTHA | MITRA | VOL 2.1 | BOOK III | CHAP CII

|| VERSE 10 | ON THE INDIVISIBILITY & IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL ||

To suppose the one as many , is to make a division of and create a variety in the nature of the Supreme Spirit .

Again the Divine Essence being diffused alike in all , it cannot be said to be confined in one thing and absent in another .

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YOGA VASISHTHA | MITRA | VOL 2.1 | BOOK III | CHAP CX

|| VERSE 02 | DESCRIPTION OF MIND ||

The faculties of the mind , being deluded by the unrealities of particulars , they continue to attribute specialities and differences to the general ones to their utter error .

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YOGA VASISHTHA | MITRA | VOL 2.1 | BOOK III | CHAP CX

|| VERSE 03-04 | DESCRIPTION OF MIND ||

The mental powers are ever busy to multiply the unrealities to infinity , as ignorant children are prone to create the false goblins of their fancy , only for their terror and trouble .

But reality soon disperses the troublesome unrealities , and the unsullied understanding drives off the errors of imagination , as the sunshine dispels the darkness .

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YOGA VASISHTHA | MITRA | VOL 2.1 | BOOK III | CHAP CX

|| VERSE 09 | DESCRIPTION OF MIND ||

The building of an aerial castle however untrue , is taken for truth for the time being ; and the mind dwelling on hopes , is a dreamer in its waking state .

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YOGA VASISHTHA | MITRA | VOL 2.1 | BOOK III | CHAP CX

|| VERSE 10 | DESCRIPTION OF MIND ||

The disease of desire is the delusion of the mind ; therefore it is to be rooted out at once with all diligence from the mind .

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YOGA VASISHTHA | MITRA | VOL 2.1 | BOOK III | CHAP CX

|| VERSE 28 | DESCRIPTION OF MIND ||

The mind is restless of its own nature , with all its vain thoughts and desires within itself ; one is carried abroad as by its current ; over hills and deserts and across rivers and seas , to far and remote cities and countries ( in search of gain ) .