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Brahma Gītā (ब्रह्मगीता)

At the crest of the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha, in the Nirvāṇa (निर्वाण) prakaraṇa, the teaching is heard under the name Brahma Gītā. The six prakaraṇas have already done their work. Rāma has said why the world went thin. The conduct of a person who wants release has been named. An appearance has arisen, seemed to stay, and quieted. What remains is spoken with Brahmā as the voice of the instruction. The framed stories have carried the hearer. The close says the seer was never one of the things seen.

The last prakaraṇa is sometimes bound as a former half and a latter half. This page does not freeze a chapter inside either half. The name Brahma Gītā is also used, in some lists, for a stretch of the brāhmaṇa's talk inside the Anugītā. That stretch lives in the Mahābhārata. This one lives in Vasiṣṭha's poem to Rāma. No śloka is supplied from memory to look like the text.

What the crest adds

• The stories were the method. Līlā's city, Cūḍālā's marriage, Śukra's wandering mind, each one a world that behaved as if it were the only world.
• The crest drops the method. What is left is the claim the stories were built to make hearable.
• Brahmā is the speaker of that claim inside the frame. Vasiṣṭha is still the teacher Rāma came to. The prince does not change.
• The shorter recension, the Laghu-yoga-vāsiṣṭha, is the book many houses actually read. This page maps the name. It does not choose a recension and sit it.

नेपालीमा

योगवासिष्ठको शिखरमा, निर्वाण प्रकरणमा, शिक्षालाई ब्रह्मगीता भनेर सुनिएको छ। छ प्रकरणले आफ्नो काम गरिसकेका छन्। रामले संसार किन पातलो भयो भनेका छन्। मुक्त चाहनेको आचरणको नाम आएको छ। एउटा आकृति उभिएको, टिकेजस्तो भएको, र शान्त भएको छ। बाँकी कुरा ब्रह्माको स्वरमा भनिन्छ। चौखटका कथाहरूले श्रोतालाई बोकेका छन्। अन्त्यले भन्छ, द्रष्टा कहिल्यै देखिएका कुरामध्येको थिएन।

अन्तिम प्रकरण कहिलेकाहीँ अघिल्लो आधा र पछिल्लो आधा गरी बाँधिन्छ। यो पृष्ठले कुनै आधाभित्रको अध्याय अड्याउँदैन। कतिपय सूचीले अनुगीताभित्रको ब्राह्मणको कुराको एउटा अंशलाई पनि ब्रह्मगीता भन्छन्। त्यो अंश महाभारतमा बस्छ। यो वसिष्ठको कवितामा, रामका लागि, बस्छ। पाठजस्तो देखाउन सम्झनाबाट कुनै श्लोक हालिएको छैन।

Where it sits

The non-dual verses already sat are Śaṅkara's Upadeśasāhasrī and the Aṣṭāvakra Gītā. The Yoga Vāsiṣṭha is their epic cousin, told as stories. The Brahma Gītā is the cousin's last page, where the stories have finished. The Rāma Gītā is the short close of a different Rāma book, spoken by Rāma himself.