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
35. The man that does not employ his mind to his actions, becomes
indifferent (virága) to the world; and he is freed from it, who is
certain of his being no agent of his actions.
36. Whether a man is fond of his enjoyments, or forsakes them in
disgust; it is all the same to him, if he but think himself to be no
actor of them. (Set not your mind to act, if you want to be set free in
fact).
37. But if you wish to remain, Ráma, with your high ambition of doing
every thing in the world, that is also good, and you may try to do the
same.
38. But if I do not fall to so great an error, as to have this high
aspiration of yours, I am never liable to the passions of anger and
enmity, and other violent emotions in this world.
39. The bodies that we bear, are nourished by some and immolated by
others: such being the state of our own being; we have no cause for our
joy or sorrow in it.
40. Knowing ourselves to be the authors of our own happiness and
misery, and as causes of the rise and dissolution of the world from our
view, we have no reason to be joyous or sorry in it.
41. Then there is an end of the joys and sorrows of our own making,
when we have that sweet composure, which is a balm to all the diseases
in our soul.
42. Fellow feeling to all living beings, makes the best state of the
mind; and the soul that is so disposed, is not subject to
transmigration.
43. Or make this the best lesson, Ráma! for your conduct in life, that
with all your activities, you continue to think yourself as no actor at
all. (Because the belief of one’s agency, leads him to the fruition of
this act in repeated births).
44. Remain quiet and steady as thou art, by resigning all things to
themselves; and never think that it is thou that dost or undoest
anything (which is destined to be so or otherwise by the Divine will).
45. But if you look to the different modes of your doing one thing or
the other, you can have no rest or quiet, but must run in the way
leading to the trap of perpetual toil and misery.
46. The belief of a man’s corporeality, that he is a destructible body,
and no spiritual being, is to him but a bed of thorns; it must
therefore be avoided by all means, in order to evade the danger of his
imminent destruction.
47. Corporeality is to be shunned as a hell-hound feeding on canine
meat; and after disappearance of the cloud of corporeity from view, the
light of spirituality will appear before the sight.
48. The pure light of spirituality; presents the appearance of the
bright moon-beams of holiness, after dispersion of clouds of corporeal
desires; and it is by the help of this light, that the spiritualist is
enabled to steer across the ocean of this world.
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