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
62. But when the mind is awakened by divine knowledge, to the sight of
the supreme Being; it presents every thing in itself, as the inward
fragrance of flowers pervades the outer-petals also. (_i.e._ The inward
sight of God, comprehends the view of every thing in it).
63. Though the intellect has the quality of knowing every thing,
contained in all the three worlds; yet it has but a little knowledge of
them from the paucity of its desire of knowing them. (_i.e._ Though the
capacity of the intellect is unlimited, yet its knowledge is
proportionate to its desire of gaining it).
64. The mind without the intellect is a dull block of stone; but it is
opened by divine light, like the lotus-bud expanding under the light of
the sun.
65. The imaginative mind is as devoid of understanding, as a statue
made of marble, is unable to move about by itself.
66. How can the regiments drawn in painting, wage a war in a mutual
conflict, and how can the moon-beams, make the medicinal plants emit
their light? (_i.e._ As it is life that makes the armies fight, so it
is the intellect that actuates the mind to its operations. And as the
plants shine by night by the sun-beams, which are deposited in them
during day, so shines the mind by means of its intellectual light).
67. Who has seen dead bodies besmeared with blood to run about on the
ground, or witnessed the fragments of stones in the woods to sing in
musical strains?
68. Where does the stone idol of the sun, dispel the darkness of the
night; and where does the imaginary forest of the sky spread its shade
on the ground?
69. Of what good are the efforts of men, who are as ignorant as blocks
of stones, and are led by their error in many ways; except it be to
endanger themselves by the mirage of their minds? (The exertions of the
ignorant are as vain as the labour of a Sisyphus).
70. It is the imagination that displays the non-existent as existent in
the soul, as it is the sun-beams, which exhibit the limpid main in the
mazy sands.
71. It is the moving principle in the body, which the sophists
designate as the mind; but know it as a mere force of the winds, like
the vital breath of living beings.
72. Those whose self-consciousness is not disturbed, by the currents of
their passions and desires; have their spiritual souls like an
unperturbed stream (of psychic fluid).
73. But when this pure consciousness is befouled by the false fancies
of this and that, and that this is I and that is mine; then the soul
and the vital principle, are both taken together to form a living being.
74. The mind, the living soul and understanding, are all but fictitious
names of an unreality, according to the conceptions of false thinkers,
and not of them that know the true spirit.
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