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
8. You must always walk in the way of the godly, and not run to the sea
of dangers; thus you should go on without pain or sorrow in your life.
9. Your soul will be as elevated as the rájasa and sátwika states, by
your avoiding the ways of the ungodly, and considering well the
teachings of the sástras.
10. Consider well in your mind the frail acts, which are attended with
various evils; and do those acts which are good for the three worlds,
both in their beginning and end, and forever to eternity.
11. The intelligent think that as dangerous to them, and not otherwise;
by reason of their being freed from narrow views, and the false
spectres—the offspring of ignorance.
12. You should always consider in yourself for the enlightenment of
your understanding, and say: O Lord! what am I, and whence is this
multiplicity of worlds?
13. By diligently considering these subjects in the society of the wise
and righteous, you must neither be engaged in your ceremonial acts, nor
continue in your unnecessary practices of the rituals.
14. You must look at the disjunction of all things in the world from
you (_i.e._ the temporaneousness of worldly things); and seek to
associate with the righteous, as the peacock yearns for the rainy
clouds.
15. Our inward egoism, outward body and the external world, are the
three seas encompassing us one after the other. It is right reasoning
only which affords the raft to cross over them, and bring us under the
light of truth.
16. By refraining to think of the beauty and firmness of your exterior
form, you will come to perceive the internal light of your intellect
hid under your egoism; as the thin and connecting thread is concealed
under a string of pearls. (The hidden thread underlying the links of
souls, is termed _Sútrátmá_.)
17. It is that eternally existent and infinitely extended blessed
thread, which connects and stretches through all beings; and as the
gems are strung to a string, so are all things linked together by the
latent spirit of God.
18. The vacuous space of the Divine Intellect, contains the whole
universe, as the vacuity of the air, contains the glorious sun; and as
the hollow of the earth, contains an emmet.
19. As it is the same air which fills the cavity of every pot on earth,
so it is the one and the same intellect and spirit of God, which fills,
enlivens and sustains all bodies in every place. (The text says, “The
Intellect knows no difference of bodies, but pervades alike in all”).
20. As the ideas of sweet and sour are the same in all men, so is the
consciousness of the Intellect alike in all mankind (_i.e._ we are all
equally conscious of our intellectuality, as we are of the sweetness
and sourness of things).
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