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
31. I was born in the same time with my ego (as a personal, corporeal
and sensible being); and it was long afterwards that I had the
knowledge of my soul; I had my insensibility last of all, in the manner
of the world approaching to its dissolution at the end.
32. Long have I travelled in the long-some journey of the world; I am
weary with fatigue and now rest in quiet, like the cooling fire of the
last conflagration. (_i.e._ Of the doomsday).
33. I thank the Lord who is all (_to pan_), and yet without all and
everything; and thee my soul! that art myself likewise. I thank thee
above those sástras and preceptors, that teach the ego and tu (_i.e._
the subjective and objective).
34. I hail the all witnessing power of that providential spirit, that
has made these ample and endless provisions for others, without
touching or enjoying them itself.
35. Thou art the spirit that dwellest in all bodies in the form of the
fragrance of flowers, and in the manner of breath in bellows; and as
the oil resides in the sesamum seeds.
36. How wonderful is this magic scene of thine, that thou appearest in
everything, and preservest and destroyest it at last, without having
any personality of thy own.
37. Thou makest my soul rejoice at one time as a lighted lamp, by
manifesting all things before it; and thou makest it joyous also, when
it is extinguished as a lamp, after its enjoyment of the visibles.
38. This universal frame is situated in an atom of thyself, as the big
banian tree is contained in the embryo of a grain of its fig.
39. Thou art seen, O lord, in a thousand forms that glide under our
sight; in the same manner as the various forms of elephants and horses,
cars and other things are seen in the passing clouds on the sky.
40. Thou art both the existence and absence of all things, that are
either present or lost to our view; yet thou art quite apart from all
worldly existences, and art aloof from all entities and non-entities in
the world.
41. Forsake, O my soul! the pride and anger of thy mind, and all the
foulness and wiliness of thy heart; because the highminded never fall
into the faults and errors of the common people.
42. Think over and over on the actions of thy past life, and the long
series of thy wicked acts; and then with a sigh blush to think upon
what thou hadst been before, and cease to do such acts anymore.
43. The bustle of thy life is past, and thy bad days have gone away;
when thou wast wrapt in the net of thy tangled thoughts on all sides.
44. Now thou art a monarch in the city of thy body, and hast the desire
of thy mind presented before thee; thou art set beyond the reach of
pleasure and pain, and art as free as the air which nobody can grasp.
45. As thou hast now subdued the untractable horses of thy bodily
organs, and the indomitable elephant of thy mind; and as thou hast
crushed thy enemy of worldly enjoyment, so dost thou now reign as the
sole sovereign, over the empire of thy body and mind.
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