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
20. At this instant, the lord bade him awake instantly at his word; and
he rose as the peacock is awakened, at the roar of a cloud.
21. Finding his eyes shining with lustre, and his mind strong with its
past remembrance; the lord of the three worlds, spoke to him in the
manner, as he had formerly addressed the lotus-born Brahmá himself.
22. O holy youth! remember your large (dominions), and bring to your
mind your youthful form and figure; then think and ponder, why you
causelessly transform yourself to this torpid state.
23. You who have no good to desire nor any evil to shun, and look on
want and plenty in the same light; you must know that what is destined
by God, is all for your good.
25. You shall have to live here, in the living liberated state of your
mind, and in full possession of your dominions, for a kalpa period; and
shall have to pass your time with this body of yours, and without any
anxiety or earthly trouble whatever.
26. The body being decayed by this time, you shall have still to abide
with your greatness of soul to the end; till the body being broken down
like an earthen vessel, the vital life like the contained air of the
pot, come to mix with the common air of vacuum.
27. Your body which is liberated in its life time, is to endure in its
purity to the end of the kalpa, and will witness generations passing
before it without any diminution of itself.
28. The end of the kalpa or dooms day, is yet too far when the twelve
suns will shine together; the rocks will melt away, and the world will
be burnt down to ashes. Why then do you waste away your body even now?
29. Now the winds are not raging with fury, nor is the world grey with
age and covered with ashes over it. The marks on the foreheads of the
immortals are still uneffaced, why then waste your body before its time?
30. The lightnings of the deluging clouds, do not now flash nor fall
down like asoka flowers, why then do you vainly waste your precious
body so prematurely?
31. The skies do not pour out their showers of rain-water on earth, so
as to overflood the mountain tops, nor do they burst out in fire and
burn them down to ashes; why then do you waste away your body in vain?
32. The old world is not yet dissolved into vapour, nor fused to fumes
and smoke; neither are the deities all extinct, after leaving Brahmá,
Vishnu and Siva to survive them; why then do you waste yourself in
vain? (If they are all alive, you should learn to live also).
33. The earth on all sides is yet so submerged under the water, as to
present the sight of the high mountains only on it, why then waste you
away your body in vain (before the last doom and deluge of the earth?).
34. The sun yet does not dart his fiery rays, with such fury in the
sky, as to split the mountains with hideous cracks; nor do the diluvian
clouds rattle and crackle in the midway sky; (to presage the last day,
why then in vain waste you your body, that is not foreboded to die?).
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