I am not going to spend too much time describing the background for these sutras. These books that I discuss on this page are the books that were important in my own journey, and I have spent hours thinking about these texts. So, you can consider that these are my recommended books on this journey. The first few posts on this Spiritual Journey section of the website is going to consist of my “notes” from these books, after which I will discuss my own thoughts.

All these books are available on the internet if you wish to study them in detail. The backgrounds aren’t important. Who is Vimalkriti, what the context was, is not important but is certainly interesting. What I care for is the core of the message. I am just going to highlight the parts from these texts that were very important in my own journey. These excerpts from the various texts ( I had one earlier on the Ashthavakra Geeta, and will continue to have more in the future from other books) are supposed to be pondered upon deeply. So, here we go:

You should absorb yourself in contemplation so that neither body nor mind appear anywhere in the triple world. You should absorb yourself in contemplation in such a way that you can manifest all ordinary behavior without forsaking cessation. You should absorb yourself in contemplation in such a way that you can manifest the nature of an ordinary person without abandoning your cultivated spiritual nature. You should absorb yourself in contemplation so that the mind neither settles within nor moves without toward external forms. You should absorb yourself in contemplation in such a way that the thirty-seven aids to enlightenment are manifest without deviation toward any convictions. You should absorb yourself in contemplation in such a way that you are released in liberation without abandoning the passions that are the province of the world.

Read the next paragraph carefully. This was spoken more than two thousand years ago. But the next paragraph shows that this could have very well been the original inspiration for the famous Rudyard Kipling’s IF poem.