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
65. To say this is I, and this another, is altogether wrong; and what
is this body or my want of it, or the state of living or death to me?
(Since the soul is an immortal and etherial substance and my true-self
and essence).
66. How foolish and short-witted were my forefathers, who having
forsaken this spiritual domain, have wandered as mortal beings in this
frail and miserable world.
67. How great is this grand sight of the immensity of Brahma; and how
mean are these creeping mortals, with their high aims and ambition, and
all their splendours of royalty. (The glory of God, transcends the
glory of glorious sun).
68. This pure intellectual sight of mine, which is fraught with endless
joy, accompanied by ineffable tranquility, surpasses all other sights
in the whole world. (The rapture of heavenly peace and bliss, has no
bounds).
69. I bow down to the Ego, which is situated in all beings; which is
the intelligent and intellectual soul, and quite apart from whatever is
the object of intellection or thought (_i.e._ the unthinkable spirit).
70. I who am the unborn and increate soul, reign triumphant over this
perishing world; by my attainment to the state of the great universal
spirit, which is the chief object of gain—the _summum bonum_ of mortal
beings, and which I live to enjoy. (This sublimation of the human soul
to the state of the supreme spirit, and enjoyment of spiritual
beatification or heavenly rapture, is the main aim and end of Yoga
meditation).
71. I take no delight in my unpleasant earthly dominion, which is full
of painful greatness; nor like to lose my everlasting realm of good
understanding, which is free from trouble and full of perpetual delight.
72. Cursed be the wicked demons that are so sadly ignorant of their
souls; and resort for the safety of their bodies, to their strongholds
of woods and hills and ditches, like the insects of those places.
73. Ignorance of the soul leads to the serving of the dull ignorant
body, with articles of food and raiment; and it was thus that our
ignorant elders pampered their bodies for no lasting good.
74. What good did my father Hiranyakasipu reap, from his prosperity of
a few years in this world; and what did he acquire worthy of his
descent; in the line of the great sage Kasyapa?
75. He who has not tasted the blissfulness of his soul, has enjoyed no
true blessing, during his long reign of a hundred years in this world.
76. He who has gained the ambrosial delight of his spiritual bliss, and
nothing of the temporary blessings of life; has gained something which
is ever full in itself, and of which there is no end to the end of the
world.
77. It is the fool and not the wise, who forsakes this infinite joy for
the temporary delights of this world; and resembles the foolish camel
which foregoes his fodder of soft leaves, for browzing the prickly
thorns of the desert.
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