The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 2 (of 4), Part 2 (of 2)Valmiki
Religion
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
32. Fairy cities like the palaces of the Gandharvas of the etherial
regions, are shown on earth, and filled with the fairies of the Fairy
land. (_i.e._ The courts and palaces of princes, which vie with the
abodes of gods).
33. Whatever there is or has been or is to be in this world in future,
are like reflexions of the revolving sky and heavenly bodies, or a
brazen ball affixed to the top of a tower, and darting its golden light
below.
34. All these are but exhibitions of the various forms of
manifestations of the selfsame God. (“These as they change,—these are
but the varied God.” Thomson. So Wordsworth and the Persian Mystics).
35. Whatever takes place at any time or place and in any form, is but
the variety of the One Self-existent reality. Why therefore, O Ráma!
should you give vent to your sorrow or joy, or wonder at any change of
time or place or nature and form of things, which are full of the
spirit of God, and exhibit the endless aspects of the Infinitive Mood.
36. Let the intelligent preserve the sameness (_samata_) of their minds
and dispositions amidst all changes; knowing them as the varying
conditions of the same unvarying Mind.
37. He who sees his God in all, and is fraught with equanimity, has no
cause of his wonder of surprise, his grief or delight or any
fluctuation of his mind, in any change in nature or vicissitude of his
fortune (because the one Omnipresence is present in all events, and its
Omnipotence directs all potentialities).
38. The unaltered mind continues to view the varieties of the power of
his Maker, in all the variations of time and place, and of all external
circumstances.
39. The Lord proposes these plans in the formation of his creation, and
exhibits as the sea does its waves in endless varieties and successions
from the plenitude of his mind.
40. So the Lord manifests the powers situated in himself, as the sea
does its waves in itself. Or as the milk forms the butter, the earth
produces the pot (_ghata_), and the thread is woven into the cloth
(_pata_). So the _bata_ or fig tree brings forth its fruit, and all
other varied forms are contained in their sources. But these formal
changes are phenomenal not real. They are mere appearances of the
spectrum, as those of apparitions and spectres.[6]
41. There is no other agent or object, nor an actor and its act, or any
thing which is acted upon, nor is there any thing that becomes nothing
except it by but a variety of the one unity. (_In nihilo riverti
posse_).
42. The mind that witnesses the spiritual truths, and remains with its
unimpaired equanimity, and is undepressed by external accidents, comes
to see the light of truth in itself. (Truth like the sun shineth in the
inmost soul).
43. (Verse). There being the lamp, there is its light also; and the sun
shining brings the day with him. Where there is the flower, there is
its odour likewise; so where there is the living soul, there is the
light or knowledge of the world in it.
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