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Purushartha

A Sanskrit term meaning 'human effort' or 'self-effort,' emphasized in the Yoga Vasistha as the primary driver of one's destiny, negating the concept of fate.

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The Yoga Vasishtha: 32,000 Verses on the Nature of Reality

What if reality itself is a dream -- and you can wake up right now? The Yoga Vasishtha is one of the most profound and least known texts in the yoga tradition: 29,000 verses of radical philosophy delivered through mind-bending stories of dreams within dreams, parallel universes of consciousness, and sages who've witnessed the creation and destruction of worlds. We explore the text's six books, its key teachings on consciousness as the sole reality, the seven stages of spiritual knowledge, and stories like Queen Leela's journey through parallel lives and Queen Chudala who taught her king the true meaning of renunciation. From its origins in medieval Kashmir to its influence on Ramana Maharshi's self-inquiry method, discover the text Swami Sivananda called "the crest-jewel of Vedanta."

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