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
46. Thou art now become as the glorious sun, to shine within and
without us day by day; and dost traverse the unlimited fields of air,
by thy continued rising and setting at every place in our meditation of
thee.
47. Thou Lord! art ever asleep, and risest also by thy own power; and
then thou lookest on the luxuriant world, as a lover looks on his
beloved.
48. These luxuries like honey, are brought from great distances by the
bees of the bodily organs; and the spirit tastes the sweets, by looking
upon them through the windows of its eyes. (The spirit enjoys the
sweets of offerings, by means of its internal senses).
49. The seat of the intellectual world in the cranium is always dark,
and a path is made in it by the breathings of inspiration and
respiration (pránápána), which lead the soul to the sight of Brahmá
(_lit._: to the city of Brahmá. This is done by the practice of
_pránáyáma_).
50. Thou Lord! art the odor of this flower-like body of thine, and
thou art the nectarious juice of thy moonlike frame, the moisture of
this bodily tree, and thou art the coolness of its cold humours: phlegm
and cough.
51. Thou art the juice, milk and butter, that support the body, and
thou being gone (O soul!), the body is dried up and become as full to
feed the fire.
52. Thou art the flavour of fruits, and the light of all luminous
bodies; it is thou that perceivest and knowest all things, and givest
light to the visual organ of sight.
53. Thou art the vibration of the wind, and the force of our
elephantine minds; and so art thou the acuteness of the flame of our
intelligence.
54. It is thou that givest us the gift of speech, and dost stop our
breath, and makest it break forth again on occasions. (Speech—Vách—vox
in the feminine gender, is made Váchá by affix á according to Bhaguri).
55. All these various series of worldly productions, bear the same
relation to thee, as the varieties of jewelleries (such as the
bracelets and wristlets); are related to the gold (of which they are
made).
56. Thou art called by the words I, thou, he &c., and it is thyself
that callest thyself such as it pleaseth thee. (The impersonal God is
represented in different persons).
57. Thou art seen in the appearances of all the productions of nature,
as we see the forms of men, horses and elephants in the clouds, when
they glide softly on the wings of the gentle winds. (But as all these
forms are unreal, so God has no form in reality).
58. Thou dost invariably show thyself in all thy creatures on earth,
the blazing fire presents the figures of horses and elephants in its
lambent flames. (Neither has God nor fire any form at all).
59. Thou art the unbroken thread, by which the orbs of worlds are
strung together as a rosary of pearls; and thou art the field that
growest the harvest of creation, by the moisture of thy intellect. (The
divine spirit stretches through all, and contains the pith of creation).
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