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
2. Truly has the seer said, that the Intellect composes the three
worlds, and that I am this Intellect, and the Intellect fills all the
quarters, and shows itself in all our actions.
3. It is the Intellect which pervades the inside and outside of every
thing, and there is nothing anywhere which is without the Intellect.
4. It is the Intellect that perceives the sunbeams and moonlight, or
else there would be no distinction between them and darkness, had not
there been this intellectual perception.
5. If there were no such intellectual perception as this earth is land,
then there would be no distinction of earth and water, nor the word
earth apply to land.
6. If the Intellect would not understand the vast space as the quarters
of the sky, and the mountains as vast protuberances on earth; then who
would call the sides and the mountains by those names?
7. If the world were not known as the world and the vacuum as vacuity,
then who would distinguish them by the names that are in common use?
8. If this big body was not perceived by the intellect, how proper
could the bodies of embodied beings be called by their names?
9. The Intellect resides in every organ of sense, it dwells in the
body, mind and all its desires; the intellect is in the internal and
external parts of the body, and the intellect is all that is in
existent and non-existent. (Because the intellect has the notions of
all these things, which would not come to exist, if they were not in
the intellect).
10. The Intellect forms my wholeself, by its feeling and knowing of
everything that I feel and know; or else I can neither perceive or
conceive nor do anything with my body alone, and without guidance of
the intellect.
11. What avails this body of mine, which is inert and insensible as a
block of wood or stone; it is the intellect that makes my self, and it
is the intelligent spirit which is the universal Soul.
12. I am the intellect which resides in the sun and in the sky, and I
am the intellect which dwells in the bodies of all beings; I am the
same intellect which guides the gods and demigods, and dwells alike in
the movables and immovable bodies.
13. The intellect being the sole existence, it is in vain to suppose
aught besides; and their being naught otherwise, there can be no
difference of a friend or foe to us.
14. What is it if I Bali, strike off the head of a person from his
body, I can not injure the soul which is everywhere and fills all space.
15. The feelings of love and enmity are properties of the intellect
(Soul), and are not separated from it by its separation from the body.
Hence the passions and feelings are inseparable from the Intellect or
soul.
16. There is nothing to be thought of beside the Intellect, and nothing
to be obtained anywhere, except from the spacious womb of the
Intellect, which comprehends all the three worlds.
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