Supreme Yoga Vasistha

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Ráma asked:

If even a such a great siddha-yogini as queen Cúndálá could not bring about the spiritual awakening and the enlightenment of king Sikhidhvaja, how does one attain enlightenment at all?

Vasistha said:

The instruction of a disciple by a preceptor is but a tradition; the cause of enlightenment is but the purity of the disciple's consciousness. Not by hearing nor by righteous acts is self-knowledge attained. Only the self knows the self, only the snake knows its feet!

YV vi.1

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