cessation of craving...

When one thoroughly investigates all this,
it is clearly seen that the pure consciousness alone exists
and nothing else.

It is beyond description.

At the end of the investigation utter silence alone remains.


The truth does not become clear in you
until it is heard again and again
and meditated upon again and again.


Enough of this confusing argumentation
concerning unity and diversity.


The hall-mark of enlightenment is cessation of craving.

When the latter is absent,
there is no enlightenment but scholasticity
which is in fact ignorance or viciousness.


This supreme truth is established only in total silence,
not by logic, discussion and argumentation.


Thus, O sage,
it is clear that Self-knowledge
is beyond the reach of the jugglery of words.

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The above Yoga Vasistha quotes are from the book
The Seven Steps to Awakening