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
47. Know your soul as a thread, passing through, and interwoven with
every thing in existence; and like a string connecting all the links of
creation, as so many gems of a necklace or the beads of a rosary. (This
hypostasis of the supreme spirit, is known as the _sútrátmá_ or the
all-connecting soul of the universe; as the poet expresses it.
Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, as full as perfect in
a hair as heart. Pope).
48. Know yourself as the unborn and embodied soul of _Virát_, which is
never born nor ever dies; and never fall into the mistake of thinking
the pure intellect, to be subject to birth or death. (The embodied soul
of _Virát_, is the universal soul as what the poet says: “Whose body
nature is, and god the soul).”
49. Know your desires to be the causes of your birth, life, death and
diseases; therefore shun your cupidity of enjoyments, and enjoy all
things in the manner of the all witnessing intellect. (_i.e._ Indulge
yourself in your intellectual and not corporeal enjoyments).
50. If you remain in the everlasting light of the sun of your
intellect, you will come to find the phenomenal world to be but a
phantom of your dream.
51. Never regret nor sorrow for any thing, nor think of your pleasures
and pains, which do not affect your soul; you are the pure intellect
and the all pervading soul, which manifests itself in every thing.
52. Know the desirables (or worldly enjoyments) to be your evils, and
the undesirable (self-mortification) to be for your good. Therefore
shun the former by your continued practice of the latter.
53. By forsaking your views of the desirables and undesirables, you
will contract a habit of hebetude; which when it takes a deep root in
your heart, you have no more to be reborn in the world.
54. Retract your mind from every thing, to which it runs like a boy
after vain baubles; and settle it in yourself for your own good.
55. Thus by restraining the mind by your best exertions, as also by
your habit of self-control, you will subdue the rampant elephant of
your mind, and reach to your highest bliss afterwards.
56. Do not become as one of those ignorant fools, who believe their
bodies as their real good; and who are infatuated by sophistry and
infidelity, and deluded by impostors to the gratification of their
sensual appetites.
57. What man is more ignorant in this world and more subject to its
evils, than one who derived his Spiritual knowledge from one who is a
smatterer in theology, and relies on the dogmas of pretenders and false
doctors in divinity.
58. Do you dispel the cloud of false reasoning from the atmosphere of
your mind, by the hurricane of our right reasoning, which drives all
darkness before it.
59. You can not be said to have your right reasoning, so long as you do
not come to the light and sight of the soul, both by your own exertion
and grace of the Supreme Spirit.
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