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Vasishta Yoga Samhita (Sanskrit: योगवासिष्ठम्, IAST: yoga-vāsiṣṭham; also known as Maha-Ramayana, Arsha Ramayana, Vasiṣṭha Ramayana,[1] Yogavasistha-Ramayana and Jnanavasistha.[2]) is a historically popular and influential[3][4] syncretic philosophical text of Hinduism, dated to the 6th CE or 7th CE — 14th CE or 15th CE.
The text is attributed to Maharishi Valmiki, but the real author is unknown.[3] It is named after sage Vasistha who is mentioned and revered in the seventh book of the Rigveda.[5] The complete text contains over 29,000 verses,[3] while the short version of the text, called Laghu yogavāsiṣṭham, contains 6,000 verses,[6][7] translated into Persian by the 15th-century.[3]
The text has a philosophical foundation similar to Advaita Vedanta,[8] and expounds the principles of Maya and Brahman, as well as the principles of non-duality.[2] and its discussion of Yoga.[9][10] The text is structured as a discourse of sage Vasistha to Prince Rama, and consists of six books,[11] describing the search for liberation through self-effort and meditation, and presenting cosmology and metaphysical teachings of existence embedded in stories and fables.[11][12]
- ^ Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, Volume 5. pp. 4638, By various, Published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, ISBN 81-260-1221-8, ISBN 978-81-260-1221-3
- ^ a b Leslie 2003, pp. 104.
- ^ a b c d Chapple 1984, pp. ix–x
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- ^ F Chenet (1987), Bhāvanā et Créativité de la Conscience, Numen, Vol. 34, Fasc. 1, pages 45-96 (in French)
- ^ a b Chapple 1984, p. xii.
- ^ The Concise Yoga Vāsiṣṭha. Translated by Venkatesananda, S. Albany: State University of New York Press. 1984. pp. 51, 77, 87, 121, 147, 180, 188, 306, 315, 354, 410. ISBN 0-87395-955-8.