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
73. The sweetness of the world, is derived from the sugar of the
intellect, and its juiciness from the milk in the divine mind; its
coldness is from the ice, and its heat from the fire contained in the
same. (_i.e._ The divine Intellect is the material cause (_upádána
kárana_) of the world).
74. The world is oily by the mustard seeds contained in the Intellect;
and billowy in the sea of the divine mind. It is dulcet by the honey
and aureate by the gold contained in the same.
75. The world is a fruit of the tree of Intellect, and its fragrance is
derived from the flowers growing in the arbour of the mind. It is the
_ens_ of the Intellect, that gives the world its entity, and it is the
mould of the eternal mind, that gives its form.
76. The difference is, that this world is changeful, while the clear
atmosphere of the Intellect has no change in it; and the unreal world
becomes real, when it is seen as full of the Divine spirit.
77. The invariable self-sameness of the Divine spirit, makes the
entity and non-entity of the world alike (because it has no existence
of its own, but in the Supreme soul). And the words ‘part and whole’
are wholly meaningless, because both of these are full with the divine
spirit.
78. Fie to them, that deride notions as false talk; because the world
with its hills, and seas, earth and rivers, is all untrue without the
notion of God’s presence in it. (The Buddhists are perceptionalists,
and have no faith in any thing beyond their sensible perceptions
(_pratyaksha_); but the Vedantic spiritualists, on the contrary, are
abstract conceptionalists, and believe nothing to be true, of which
they have no notion or inward conception).
79. The intellect being an unity, cannot be mistaken for a part of any
thing; and though it may become as solid as a stone, yet it shines
brightly in the sphere of its vacuity.[13]
80. It has a clear vacuous space in its inside, as a transparent
crystal, which reflects the images of all objects, though it is as
clear as the sky.
81. As the lines on the leaves of trees, are neither the parts of the
leaves nor distinct from them, so the world situated in the Intellect,
is no part of it nor separate from it.
82. No detached soul is of heterogeneous growth, but retains in its
nature the nature of the intellect, and Brahmá is the primary cause of
causes. (Hence called Hiranyagarbha.)
83. The mind is of its own nature a causal principle, by reason of its
notion of the Intellect; but its existence is hard to be proved, when
it is insensible and unconscious of the intellect.
84. Whatever is in the root, comes out in the tree, as we see the seed
shoot forth in plants of its own species.
85. All the worlds are as void as vacuity, and yet they appear
otherwise, as they are situated in the Great Intellect. All this is the
seat of the Supreme, and you must know it by your intellection.
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