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
2. Who so having obtained a human form, is engaged in acts out of his
own choice and with a sense of his own agency, he is subjected to his
ascension and descension to heaven and hell by turns (according to the
merit or demerit of his acts, while there is no such thing in the doing
of his duty).
3. Some persons who are inclined to unduteous (or illegal) acts, by
neglecting the performance of their destined (or legal) duties, are
doomed to descend to deeper hells, and to fall into greater fears and
torments from their former states.
4. Some men who are fast bound to the chain of their desires, and have
to feel the consequences of their acts, are made to descend to the
state of vegetables from their brutal life, or to rise from it to
animal life again.
5. Some who are blessed with the knowledge of the Spirit, from their
investigation of abstruse philosophy, rise to the state of moniety
(Kaivalya); by breaking through the fetters of desire. (_Kaivalya_ is
the supreme bliss of God in his solity, to which the divine sage
aspires to be united. Or it is the complete unity with oneself
irrespective of all connections).
6. There are some men, who after ascending gradually in the scale of
their creation in former births, have obtained their liberation in the
present life of _rájas-sátwika_ or active goodness.
7. Such men being born again on earth, assume their bright qualities
like the crescent moon, and are united with all prosperity, like the
Kurchi plant which is covered with blossoms in its flowering time of
the rainy season. (The good effects of former acts, follow a man in his
next birth).
8. The merit of prior acts follows one in his next state, and the
learning of past life meets a man in his next birth, as a pearl is born
in a reed. (A particular reed is known to bear pearly seeds within
them, well known by the name of _Vansalochana_).
9. The qualities of respectability and amiableness, of affability and
friendliness, and of compassion and intelligence, attend upon these
people like their attendants at home. (_i.e._ He becomes master of
them).
10. Happy is the man who is steady in the discharge of his duties, and
is neither overjoyed nor depressed at the fruition or failure of their
results. (Duties must be done, whether they repay or not).
11. The defects of the dutiful and their pain and pleasure, in the
performance of duties, are all lost under the sense of their
duteousness; as the darkness of night, is dispelled by the light of the
day, and the clouds of the rainy season, are dispersed in autumn.
12. The man of a submissive and sweet disposition, is liked by every
body; as the sweet music of reeds in the forest, attracts the ears of
wild antelopes. (The deer and snakes, are said to be captivated by
music of pipe).
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