THE Supreme YOGA (Yoga Vasistha)[Swami Venkatesananda] The Yoga Vasistha has been a favourite book of spiritual seekers in India these seveeal centuries. Its special appeal lies in its thoroughly rational approach, & in its presentation of Vedanta as a philosophy to bridge the gulf between the secular & the sacred, action & contemplation, in human life through a comprehensive & lofty spirituality. This monumental scripture is the greatest help to the spiritual awakening & the direct experience of the Truth. This is certain. If this is what you want, you are welcome to the yoga Vasistha. An oft-recurring expression in this scripture is ‘kakataliya’—a crow alights on the coconut palm tree & at that very moment a ripe coconut falls. The two unrelated events thus seem to be related in time & space, though there is no causal relationship. Such is life. Such is ‘creation’. But the mind caught in its own trap of logic questions why, invents a ‘why’ & a ‘wherefore’ to satisfy itself, conveniently ignoring the inconvenient questions that still haunt an intelligent mind. Vasistha demands direct observation of the mind, its montion, its notions, its reasoning, the assumed cause & the projected result, & even the observer, the observed & the observation—and the realisation of their indivisible unity as the infinite consciousness