The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 1 (of 4)Valmiki
Religion
The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 1 (of 4)
Valmiki
Hinduism -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800; Religious life -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800
55. It is impossible that things having the forms of space, earth and
air (_i.e._ material objects) will present the same features in the
clear light (of induction), as they do to our open sight.
56. Thus when the observer comes to know the unreality of the phenomena
of the three worlds, as well as of his own entity, it is then that his
pure soul attains to the knowledge of _kaivalya_ or solity of divine
existence.
57. It is such a mind that reflects the image of God in itself as in
a mirror; while all others are as blocks of stone, and incapable of
receiving any reflexion at all.
58. After suppression of the sense of _ego_ and _tu_ (or both the
subjective and objective knowledge), and the error of the reality of
the outer world the beholder becomes abstracted and remains without
vision of external things in his sitting posture.
59. Ráma rejoined:—If the perception of entity is not to be put down,
nor an entity become a non-entity nor when I cannot view the visibles
(which are the causes of our error), as non-entities;
60. Then tell me O Bráhman! how to uproot this disease of our eagerness
for the visibles from the mind, which bewilders the understanding, and
afflicts us with a train of troubles.
61. Vasishtha replied:—Now hear my advice, Ráma, for the suppression
of this phantom of phenomenon, whereby it will surely die away and
become utterly extinct.
62. Know Ráma, that nothing that is, can ever be destroyed or become
extinct; and though you remove it, yet it will leave its seed or trace
in the mind.
63. This seed is the memory of such things, which reopens the ideas
of the visibles in the mind, expanding themselves in the fallacious
notions of the forms of big worlds and skies, mountains and oceans.
64. These (wrong notions) called _doshas_ or faults and defects of
understanding, are obstacles in the way to liberation; but they do not
affect the sages who are found to be liberated.
65. Again if the world and all other things are real existences (as
the Sánkhyas maintain): yet they cannot confer liberation on any one;
because the visibles, whether they are situated within or without us
are perishable themselves.
66. Learn therefore this dreadful proposition (solemn truth), which
will be fully explained to you in the subsequent parts of this work.
(Note:—A dreadful dogma it is to physicists and “_ádivádis_” or
asserters of the _encipientes mundi_ or beginning of the world).
67. That all things appearing in the forms of vacuity, elementary
bodies, the world, and _ego et tu_, are non-entities, and have no
meanings in them.
68. Whatever is seen apparent before us, is no other but the supreme
Brahma himself, and his undecaying and imperishable essence.
69. The plenitude of creation is an expansion of his plenum, and the
quiet of the universe rests in his quietude. It is his _beom_ which is
the substance of vacuum, and it is his immensity that is the substratum
of the immense cosmos.
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