26. I bow down also to the sage Vasishtha, who is of the form of incarnate knowledge alone, and who is immerged in the joyous bliss of divine felicity; who is beyond all duality and sees the only One in the unity of infinite vacuity. Who is ever alike the pure and immaculate One, and witnesseth the inmost of all minds; who is beyond all states and conditions (of so and so or of such and such); and who is quite devoid of the three qualities (which belong to all bodies) _i.e._ There is no known quality or property that can be predicated to the Deity. The qualities of the unknown One, as unknown, peculiar and unique as own nature. 27. Here ends the Mahárámáyana of the sage Vasishtha, with its continuation by his recorder Válmíki, and the speech of the celestial messenger at the latter end of the Book on Nirvána or the ultimate Extinction of the living soul. FINIS. FOOTNOTES: [1] The mind involved in ignorance, is said to be waking, and the uncontrouled mind is styled as dreaming: the mind subdued by weariness is said to be asleep, and when brought under subjection by any effort, is called _samádhi_ or meditation, lastly its liberation from ignorance, is known as its state of _mukti_ or emancipation. [2] Note.--Each of the three states of waking, dreaming and sound sleep admit of three conditions viz. waking wakefulness, waking dream and the waking sound sleep; again dreaming watchfulness, dreaming dream and dreaming sleep; and lastly the sleepy waking, the sleepy dream and the sleepy sound sleep (see the scholium of Sureshvara for instances of every Kind). [3] The founder of Vedánta was Vyása, of Buddhism--Buddha, of Sánkhya--Kapila, of Saugata--Patanjali. Tryaksha, Pashupati and Bhairana were professors of Ágama tantras. [4] Note. The sacred Sanskrit was at once a perfect language, without any knowledge of us regarding its formative stage, though a _balabhásá_ or infant-language is said to have existed before, of which we have no relic nor know anything. [5] Note. If the world be a form of Divine knowledge, and subsistent in and subjective to the eternal mind of God; it can then be neither created nor destroyed at any time; but since it is subject to creation and destruction, it can be a part of Divine knowledge. Nor is it an object for want of any cause of its creation. Therefore it is a mere nullity. [6] Note.--If the thinkables are the produce of their first creation, then it remains to be said, whence (_i.e._ from what materials) they were formed. [7] Note.--According to Vasishtha, Byam, Beom or vacuum, is possest of all the attributes of Brahm Godhead, in its unity, infinity, eternity, incorporeality and formlessness, as also in its omnipresence, omnipotence in its supporting the worlds and in the omniscience of the vacuous intellect.