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
20. Some are liberated in their life-time, and rove about freely in
this earth; while others live in their blissful states (in holy and
lonely hermitage). Some are altogether emancipate in their reliance in
the Supreme Spirit.
21. There are some that require long periods for their blessed and
ultimate liberation; and others there are that disbelieve the
intellectuality and spirituality of mankind, and dislike their being
reduced to the solity of the soul, or to be reduced to their oneness or
unity with the Supreme soul—Kaivalya.
22. Some become regents of the skies above, and others roll down in the
form of mighty streams; some become females of beautiful appearances,
and others as ugly hermaphrodites and abnormalities.
23. Some are of enlightened understandings, and some are darkened in
their minds. Some are preachers and lecturers of knowledge, and others
in their ecstatic trance of Samádhi.
24. The living souls that are under the subjection of their desires,
are so powerless of themselves, that they have forgotten their freedom,
and are fast chained to the fetters of their wishes.
25. They rove about the world, now flying up and then falling down in
their hopes and fears; and are incessantly tossed up and down, like
playing balls flung on all sides, by the relentless hands of playful
Death.
26. Entrapped in the hundred fold snare of desire, and converted to the
various forms of their wishes, they pass from one body to another, as
the birds fly from one tree to alight on another.
27. The endless desires of the living soul, bred and led by the false
imaginations of the mind, have spread this enchanted snare of magic or
máyá, which is known by the name of the great world.
28. So long are the stupefied souls doomed to rove about in the world,
like the waters in a whirlpool; as they do not come to understand the
true nature of their selves, as selfsame with the Supreme-Self.
29. Having known and seen the true Self, by forsaking their false
knowledge of it, they come to their consciousness of themselves, as
identic with the divine Self; and having attained this in process of
time, they are released from their doom of revisiting this world of
pain and sorrow.
30. There are however some insensible beings, who notwithstanding their
attainment of this knowledge, are so perverted in their natures, that
they have to return again to this earth, after passing into a hundred
lives in it in various shapes (owing to their disbelief in the self).
31. Some there are who after having attained to higher states, fall
down again by the lowness of their spirits, and appearing in the shapes
of brute creatures, have to fall into hell at last.
32. There are some great minded souls, who having proceeded from the
state of Brahma, have to pass here a single life, after which they are
absorbed in the Supreme soul. (Such were the sage Janaka and the sagely
Seneca).
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