Theos-Talk Archives (November 2000 Message tt00068)

That Mahatma looks rightly upon the earth who has withdrawn 
his 
mind from it and dissolved all reliance on 'I' and 'Thou'. He 
witnesses the Truth who finds himself and the entire world filled 
with the universal form of intellect uninterrupted by any 
phenomena. 
Considering the states of misery and happiness attending on 
worldly 
life as fleeting states of the Ego, he has no cause to repine or 
rejoice at them. The right-seeing man sees himself amidst a 
world 
filled with Divine Spirit and finds nothing to desire or dislike in 
this existence. The man of right discernment, having destroyed 
likes 
and dislikes, desire and disgust, lives in a world full of the 
essence of Being that is beyond comprehension and 
conception. Such a 
Mahatma becomes Mahadeva, whose soul extends like the 
all-pervading 
sky, touching all existences, but untinged by any. 
I bow down to that Mahatma who has passed beyond the states 
of 
light, darkness and dream, and is established in brilliance and 
tranquillity amidst supreme bliss. I bow down to that Shiva of 
transcendental wisdom, wholly enwrapt in meditation upon 
Eternal 
Being, who presides over the creation, preservation and 
destruction 
of the universe, and who is manifest in all the grandeurs and 
beauteous wonders of nature. 

-Yoga Vasishtha Maharamayana