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
53. As the strong sun light, displays itself in variegated colours in
different bodies; so does Omnipotence, display itself in various vivid
colours, all of which are unreal shades. (_Urdu: O leken chamakta hai
har rang men._—It is His light, that shines in all colours).
54. As the colourless cloud receives in its bosom, the variety of
transient hues displayed in the rainbow; so the inscrutable spirit of
the Almighty, reflects and refracts the various colours displayed in
creation. (Shines in the stars, glows in the sun &c. Pope).
55. From the active agent, proceed the inert matter and inactivity
without a secondary cause; as the active spider produces the passive
thread, and the living man brings upon him, his dull torpor in sleep.
(So the active spirit of God, brings forth _inertia_ and inactive
matter, out of itself into being. The laws of statics as well as
dynamics both subsist in the energy of the spirit).
56. Again the Lord makes the mind to produce matter for its own bondage
only; as he makes the silkworm weave its own sheathing for its
confinements alone. (So the mind maketh its material equipage, for its
own imprisonment in the world).
57. The mind forgets its spiritual nature of its own will; and makes
for itself a strong prison house (of its earthly possessions), as the
silkworm weaves its own coating.
58. But when the mind inclines to think of its spiritual nature by its
own free will; it gets its release from the prison-house of the body
and bondage in the world; as a bird or beast is released from its cage,
and the big elephant let loose from his fetters and the tying post.
59. The mind gradually moulds itself into the form, which it constantly
thinks upon in itself; and it derives from within itself, the power to
be what it wishes to become. (Constant thought brings about its end.
_Yádrisí bhávaná yasya_ &c.).
60. The long sought power when acquired, becomes as familiar to the
soul, as the dark clouds are attendant upon the sky in the rainy-season.
61. The newly obtained power is assimilated with its recipient, as the
virtue of every season is manifested in its effect upon the trees,
(_i.e._ in the season fruits and flowers).
62. There is no bondage nor liberation of human soul, nor of the Divine
Spirit. We cannot account for the use of these words among mankind.
(These terms apply to the mind which is bound and freed, and not to the
soul which is ever free).
63. There is no liberation nor bondage of the soul, which is the same
with the Divine. It is this delusive world which shows the immortal
soul under the veil of mortality, or as eclipsed by and under the
shadow of temporary affairs.
64. It is the unsteady mind, which has enwrapped the steady soul, under
the sheath of error; as the coverlet of the silkworm, covers the
dormant worm.
65. All other bondages which bind the embodied soul to earth, are the
works of the mind, which is the root of all worldly ties and affections.
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