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Yoga Vasistha

  1. IDEA 1

    It begins with honest despair

    Young prince Rama returns from travels and finds the world empty and pointless. The whole teaching starts from his honest dissatisfaction, not from easy answers.

  2. IDEA 2

    Effort shapes destiny

    The sage Vasistha tells Rama that present effort is stronger than past fate. What you do now can reshape what you thought was fixed.

  3. IDEA 3

    The world as the mind's dream

    Vasistha compares the world to a dream the mind projects. Seeing this loosens fear and craving, because dream things lose their grip.

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