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
19. This one in all (_to pan_) being seen in us, the whole world is
seen in Him; and He being heard, every thing is heard in Him: He being
felt, all things are felt in Him; and He being present, the whole world
is present before us.
20. He wakes over the sleeping world, and destroys the darkness of the
ignorant; He removes the dangers of the distressed, and bestows His
blessings upon the holy. (So the sruti: _suptesujágarti_. God never
sleeps. Jones. The ever wakeful eyes of Jove. To wake over the sleeping
worlds. Iliad).
21. He moves about as the living soul of all, and rejoices as the
animal soul in all objects of enjoyment; it is He that glows in all
visible objects in their various hues. (Shines in the sun, and twinkles
in the stars; blazes in the fire, and blushes in flowers. Pope).
22. He sees himself in himself, and is quietly situated in all things;
as pungency resides in peppers, and sweetness in sugar &c.
23. He is situated as intelligence and sensations, in the inward and
outward parts of living beings; and forms the essence and existence of
all objects, in general, in the whole universe.
24. He forms the vacuity of the sky, and the velocity of the winds; He
is the light of igneous bodies, and the moisture of aqueous substances.
25. He is the firmness of the earth, and the warmth of the fire; He is
the coldness of the moon, and the entity of every thing in the world.
26. He is blackness in inky substances, and coldness in the particles
of snow; and as fragrance resides in flowers, so is he resident in all
bodies.
27. It is his essence which fills all space, as the essence of time
fills all duration; and it is his omnipotence that is the fountain of
all forces, as it is his omnipresence that is the support of every
thing in every place. (This is the pervasion, of omnipresence wrongly
called as pantheism).[16]
28. As the Lord unfolds everything to light, by the external organ of
sight and the internal organ of thinking; so the Great God enlightens
the gods (sun, moon, Indra and others) by his own light. (The Natural
Theism which represented the visible heavens and heavenly bodies as
gods, maintained also the doctrine of the One Invisible God, as shining
and supporting them all by his presence. Gloss).
29. I am that I am, without the attributes (of form or figure or any
property) in me; and I am as the clear air, unsullied by the particles
of flying dust; and as the leaves of lotuses, untouched by their
supporting and surrounding waters.
30. As a rolling stone gathers no moss, so there is nothing that
touches or bears any relation to my airy mind; and the pain and
pleasure which betake the body, cannot affect my form of the inner soul.
31. The soul like a gourd fruit, is not injured by the shower of rain
falling on the outer body resembling its hard crust; and the intellect
like the flame of a lamp, is not to be held fast (or fastened) by a
rope.
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