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
7. But the world is (as continuous) as the grove of _Karajna_ plants,
growing from unsown seeds; and its elementary bodies of the water,
fire, earth and air, have no regard for any body; (that is living or
dead).
8. The intellect which is the soul of the universe, creates afterwards
the earth and all other things, as one remembering the objects of his
dream (recalls them to his memory).
9. Wherever there is the germ of the world, it develops itself even at
that place; the live elements are the five fold seed of the world, but
the undecaying intellect is the seed of the quintuple (_pancha-bhúta_).
10. As is the seed so is its fruit; hence know the world to be a form
and full of God; and the spacious firmament to be the reservoir of the
quintuple elements in the beginning of creation.
11. The soul like the body, is composed of the powers of the Intellect,
and does not subsist of itself; but being inflated by the same, it
extends its bulk.
12. But the vacuous form of the intellect, which is seated in the
spiritual body of the soul, cannot be composed of solid reality (as the
primary elements of matter). This is not possible; hence nothing can
come out from an impossibility.
13. Again that which is changeable in its form, cannot have its
sameness at all times: hence if the essence of the quintuple elements,
be attributed to Brahma, from the idea of their being the quintessence
of his spirit, there can be no immaterial and immutable Brahma.
14. Therefore know this quintuple to be the developed Brahma himself,
as he evolved them in the beginning, and as he is their producer for
the creation of the world.
15. Thus He being the prime cause of their production, there is nothing
that is produced (without) him, and the world is no product of itself.
16. The unreal appears as real as a city seen in a dream, and as a
castle built in air by our hopes: so we place the living soul in
ourselves, which has its foundation in the vacuous spirit of God.
17. Thus the brilliant spirit, which is situated in the Divine
Intellect, being no earthly or any other material substance, is styled
the living soul, and remains in vacuum as a luminous body rising in the
sky.
18. Hear now how this vacuous living soul, comes to be embodied in the
human body, after its detachment as a spark from the totality of vital
spirits, in the empty sphere of divine Intellect.
19. The soul thinks itself as “a minute particle of light” at
first, and then it considers itself as growing in the sphere of its
consciousness.
20. The unreal appearing as real, proves to be unreal at last; as the
fictitious moon becomes a nullity afterwards; so the soul continues to
view itself subjectively and objectively both as the viewer and the
view.
21. Thus the single self becomes double as one sees his own death in a
dream; and thus it waxes into bigness and thinks its vital spark as a
star. (This is the form of the _lingadeha_ or sentient soul within the
body).
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