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
10. He who has seen the all surpassing Supreme Being, has his
heartstrings all cut asunder, and the doubts of his mind all driven
away. The sequences of his acts are washed away (and leave no fear of
his transmigration).
11. The longing after perceptibles (_Chetyas_) does not cease, unless
the perception of the visibles is effaced from the mind.
12. How then is this perception to be effaced? How is it possible
to have a longing after the unintelligible Intelligence, without
suppression of our longing for the visibles? It is only to be effected
by avoiding the external perceptions of the mind.
13. Ráma said:—Tell me sir, where and how is that vacuous soul
called pasu, by the knowledge of which no one can get rid of
his transmigration (_i.e._ the worshippers of the _jívátmá_ or
animal soul called _jívavádis_, are not entitled to their final
liberation—_mukti_).
14. Tell me also, who is that man, who by his company with the good and
study of good works, has gone over the ocean of the world, and beholds
the Supreme soul in himself.
15. Vasishtha replied:—Whatever animal souls being cast in
the wilderness of this life, long after this intelligent soul
(_chetanátman_), they are truly wise, and know him (in themselves).
16. Whoso believes the animal soul as the life of the world (or mundane
soul), and thinks (the knowledge of the) Intelligence to be attended
with pain only, he can never know Him anywhere (in this world).
17. If the Supreme soul be known to us, O Ráma! the string of our woes
is put to an end, like the fatal cholera after termination of its
cholic pain or extraction of its poison.
18. Ráma said:—Tell me, O Bráhman! the true form of the Supreme soul,
by light of which the mind may escape from all its errors.
19. Vasishtha replied:—The Supreme soul is seen in the same way in
ourselves and within our bodies, as we are conscious of our minds to be
seated within us, after its flight to distant countries.
20. Our notion of the Supreme spirit is often lost in the depth of our
minds, in the same way, as the existence of the outer world (objective
knowledge), becomes extinct in our consciousness in yoga meditation.
21. It is He in whose knowledge we lose our sense of the beholder and
visibles, and who is an invacuous vacuum or a substantive vacuity
himself. (_i.e._ Who being known, we forget our knowledge both of the
subjective and objective, and view his unity as the only _to on_ or
substratum of all). So Fichte: In thee, the Incomprehensible, does
my own existence, and that of the world become comprehensible to me.
Lewis. Phil. vol. II. P. 563.
22. He whose substance appears as the vacuum, and in whom subsists the
vacuous plenum of the universe; and who appears as vacuity itself,
notwithstanding the plenitude of his creation subsisting in him, is
verily the form of the Supreme soul (that you want to know).
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