334 Section 5, Chapter 40 -Yoga Vasistha

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Vishnu is talking about the body. Life and death are notional. We neither live nor die. He informs Prahlada that he is essentially bodiless. He is the body only "in a manner of speaking". Self-enquiry entails realising that all our ideas about ourself and the world are simply that -- ideas, notions. The Yoga Vasishtha points us beyond such notions as the reality of the body. However, traditional yoga is firmly rooted in belief in the reality of the body. This gives rise to doctrinal debate about whether liberation is possible while still embodied. However, the spiritual practitioner need not be concerned with this. We are essentially bodiless! We associate certain sensations with the notion of the body. This is the cognitive process at work. There are only sensations, feelings. Experiencing. Notions of being, non-being, being embodied or being bodiless are notions. We can access the supreme Lord through the body. Notions of 'I do' and 'I experience' and subject and object are impediments to supreme peace. Enlightened beings are still subject to pleasure and pain but they are not driven by them.

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