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
61. There are many that dispute on this point, as they dispute on
other matters, in their error, and mislead others into the same; but
we are set free from all mistake. (The disputants are the dualists,
who make a distinction between the eternal and created souls.
(_Jívátmá-paramátmá-dvaita-vádis_)).
62. The dualist relying on the phenomena, is deceived by their varying
appearances; but the believer in the formless unity, relies in the
everlasting blessed spirit (which he views in his intellect).
63. Fondness for intellectual culture, is attended with the vernal
blossoms of intellect, which are as white as the clear firmament, and
as numberless as the parts of time.
64. The intellect exhibits itself in the form of the boundless and
wonderful mundane egg, and it breathes out the breath of its own
spirit in the same egg. (The breathing soul is called the _sútrátmá_
one of the ten hypostases of Brahma, the vital air is the first of the
elementary bodies, in the order of emanation _alias_ creation).
65. It then showed itself in the wondrous form of the antimundane
waters, not as they rise from springs or fall into reservoirs, as also
in those of the substances constituting the bodies of the best of
beings.
66. It next shone forth with its own intellectual light, which shines
as bright as the humid beams of the full moon.
67. Then as the intellect rises in full light with its internal
knowledge, upon disappearance of the visibles from sight; so also it is
transformed to dullness by dwelling upon gross objects, when it is said
to be lie dormant. In this state of the intellect, it is lowered to and
confined in the earth.
68. The world is in motion by the force of the Intellect, in whose
great vacuity it is settled; it is lighted by the light of that
Intellect, and is therefore said to be both existent as well as
inexistent by itself.
69. Like the vacuity of that Intellect, the world is said now to exist
and now to be inexistent; and like the light of that Intellect, it now
appears and now disappears from view.
70. Like the fleeting wind which is breathed by that Intellect, the
world is now in existence and now inexistent; and like the cloudy and
unclouded sphere of that Intellect, the world is now in being and now a
not being.
71. Like the broad day light of that Intellect, the world is now in
existence, and like the disappearance of that light, it now becomes
nothing. It is formed like collyrium from the particles of the oil of
the _rajas_ quality of the Intellect.
72. It is the intellectual fire that gives warmth to the world, and it
is the alabaster (conch) of the intellect that causes its whiteness;
the rock of intellect gives it hardness, and its water causes its
fluidity.
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