The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 2 (of 4), Part 2 (of 2)Valmiki
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The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 2 (of 4), Part 2 (of 2)
Valmiki
Hinduism -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800; Religious life -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800
9. As the sea water shows itself in various forms in all its waves, so
the intellect does not differ from it, in showing us its various
representations of its own motion.
10. The diversities of our subjective and objective knowledge of myself
and thyself and these (ego, tu &c.), are like the varieties of waves
and billows in the ocean of the intellect, these are but erroneous
notions, since they are representations of the same element, and the
very same intellect.
11. The various states of the intellect (Chit), intellection (Chintá),
intelligence (Chittam) and intelligibles (Chetyas), all appertain to
the main principle of the soul. They are differently conceived by the
learned and ignorant, but the difference is a mere conceit (Kalpaná).
12. The intellect presents its two different aspects to the wise and
unwise people; to the ignorant, it shows its unreal nature in the
realistic conception of the world, while to the learned it exhibits its
luminous form in the identity of all things (with God).
13. The intellect enlightens the luminous bodies of the sun and stars,
by its internal (intellectual) light; it gives a relish to things by
its internal taste; and it gives birth to all beings from its inborn
ideas of them.
14. It neither rises nor sets, nor gets up nor sits; it neither
proceeds nor recedes to or fro, it is not here nor is it no where.
(Omniscience is present everywhere and is ever the same).
15. The pure and transpicuous intellect which is situated in the soul,
displays in itself the phantasmagoria which is called the world.
16. As a heap of fire emits its flame, and a luminous body blazes with
its rays; and as the sea swells in surges and breaks in with its arms,
so the intellect bursts out in its creations. (Omniscience is the cause
and not percipience of the world—God makes all things, and does not
perceive them like us).
17. Thus the intellect which is selfmanifest and omnipresent of its
own nature, developes and envelopes the world by its own manifestation
and occultation, and by its acts of integration and segregation
(_sánhára_ and _nirhára_); or the acts of accretion and secretion.
18. It is led by its own error and of its own accord, to forget and
forsake its state of infinitude; and then by assuming its individual
personality of egoism (that I am), it is converted to an ignoramus. (So
men of contracted views turn to be dunces).
19. It falls from its knowledge of generals to that of particulars, by
its act of specialization; and comes to the discrimination of the
positive, and negative, and of inclusion and exclusion (or admission or
rejection).
20. It strives and struggles within the confines of the sensuous body
(owing to its degradation from spirituality); and it multiplies in
these bodies like the weeds sprouting out of the bosom of the earth.
(_i.e._ From its unity becomes a multiplicity in the many animal
bodies).
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