Transcriber’s Notes Inconsistent punctuation has been silently corrected. Obvious misspellings have been silently corrected, and the following corrections made to the text. Other spelling and hyphenation variations have not been modified. Page 15, section 20 - clear mirror the untainted seat -> clear mirror of the untainted seat Page 25, section 47 - us to -> us to attain Page 62, section 25 - _tatpada orstate_ -> _tatpada_ or state Page 64, section 1 - the idea of the will be found -> the idea of the world will be found Page 68, section 9 - proctive -> productive Page 197, section 23 - with ever rising -> without ever rising Page 200, section 18 - of duality -> of neither duality Page 268, section 14 - without its -> without its cause Page 502, section 73 - makes -> makes not Page 511, section 23 - remains -> remains immune Page 512, section 28 - cares -> cares not Page 525, section 21 - externally conscious -> internally conscious Angle brackets: <...> have been used by the transcriber to indicate light editing of the text to insert missing words. The spelling of Sanskrit words are normalized to some extent, including correct/addition of accents where necessary. Note that the author uses á, í, ú to indicate long vowels. This notation has not been changed. The LPP edition (1999) which has been scanned for this ebook, is of poor quality, and in some cases text was missing. Where possible, the missing/unclear text has been supplied from another edition, which has the same typographical basis (both editions are photographical reprints of the same source, or perhaps one is a copy of the other): Bharatiya Publishing House, Delhi 1978. A third edition, Parimal Publications, Delhi 1998, which is based on an OCR scanning of the same typographical basis, has also been consulted in a few cases. The term “Gloss.” or “Glossary” probably refers to the extensive classical commentary to Yoga Vásishtha by Ananda Bodhendra Saraswati (only available in Sanskrit). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE YOGA-VÁSISHTHA MAHÁRÁMÁYANA. OF VÁLMÍKI VOL. IV (part 1) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE YOGA-VÁSISHTHA MAHÁRÁMÁYANA OF VÁLMÍKI in 4 vols. in 7 pts. (Bound in 4.) Vol. 4 (In 2 pts.) Bound in one.