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
46. If you rely in the visibles, you are subject to the delusion of
your mind; but no sooner, you shun your reliance in them, than you are
liberated from your illusion of it.
47. The visible world is a combination, of the three qualities of
_satva_, _rajas_ and _tamas_; and it is exposed before you, by your
_máyá_ or illusion only, as a snare is spread for entanglement of
beasts.
48. Think of the inexistence both of the subjective-self and the
objective world; and remain as firm as a fixed rock on earth, and
behold the Lord only, in the form of infinite space in thy heart. (This
is Vasishtha’s Vacuism).
49. Shun, Ráma, the false thoughts of thy self-existence, and that of
the visible world also; and forsake thy belief in the duality, in order
to settle thyself in the infinite unity.
50. Continue to meditate on the soul, as it is situated between the
subjective viewer, and the objective view of this world; and as it is
existent in thy vision, which lies between the two. (_i.e._ Between
yourself and the visible object, which is empty space).
51. Forsake the ideas of the subject and object of your taste (_i.e._
of the taster and tastable); and thinking on their intermediate state
of gustation or tasting, be one with the soul.
52. Ráma, place yourself in the position of your thought or power of
thinking, which lieth betwixt the thinker and thinkables; support your
soul on the supportless soul of all, and remain steady in your
meditation.
53. Forsake the cares of the world, and be exempt from the thoughts of
existence and non-existence; meditate on the universal soul and be
settled with thy soul in that soul.
54. When you have learnt to think on the thinkable one, by
relinquishing the thought of your own existence; you shall then arrive
to that state of the unconsciousness, which is free from misery (or the
state of supreme bliss).
55. Know your thoughts to be your fetters, and your self-consciousness
as your binding chain; therefore O Ráma! loosen the lion of your soul,
from the prison house of your mind.
56. By departing from the state of the Supreme Soul, and falling to the
thoughts of the mind, you will be crowded by your imaginations, and see
only the objects of your thought all about you.
57. The Knowledge, that intellection or thinking power is distinct from
the soul, introduces the existence of the unhappy mind, which must be
got rid of for the sake of true happiness. (by knowing them as the one
and same thing).
58. When you become conscious of the Supreme soul in you, and as
permeated throughout all nature, you will then find the thinker and his
thinking, the thinkables and their thoughts, vanish into nothing.
59. The thought that “I have a soul and a living soul also,” brings on
us all the miseries to which we are exposed to all eternity. (_i.e._
consciousness of a personal entity, causes the woes which personality
is ever liable to).
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