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
7. The Lord said:—It often happens that many things are of simultaneous
occurrence at the one and same time; as the _kákatálíya sanyoga_ or the
synchronous flying of the crow and the falling of the fruit upon him.
Thus it was that the idea of the Chandála was of contemporaneous growth
in the minds of all the Bhotas and Kirs as of thyself: as there are
many men that are prepossessed with the same opinion with others,
however wrong it may be.
8. It was by cause of this, that they corresponded with thy thoughts,
and related thy story as thou didst reflect it thyself: because a
cogitation or reflection of something cannot be otherwise at the same
time (but it must appear to every body alike).
9. It is true that a Chandála had erected a house at the border of the
village, which thou didst see to be now reduced to ruins; but it was an
erroneous conception of thine, to think thyself the very man, and to
have built the very house. (It was the mistake of thy personality for
another, as it often overtakes the minds of many men).
10. Sometimes the same mistake lays hold on many minds, as the
multitude is seen to be led astray, by the simultaneous current of the
same opinions in many ways.
11. In this manner many men see at once the same dream, as the giddy
heads of drunken men, fall equally into the same kind of dizziness at
the same time, of seeing the earth and skies turning and rolling round
them.
12. Many boys are seen at once to join in the same sport, and a whole
herd of stags is observed to meet together in the same verdant field.
13. Many men are seen simultaneously to pursue the same employment, for
the purpose of gaining the like object of their pursuit (as it is seen
in the flight and fighting of an army for their safety or victory).
14. It is commonly said, that time is the giver (or producer) and
obstructer of the objects of human pursuits as of all other events; but
time is as quiescent as the supreme spirit, and it is the desire and
exertion of people, that are the causes of their desired effects.
15. Time is a formless void, and is identic with the nature and form of
the increate great Lord God himself. It is neither the giver nor taker
of anything to or from any one at any time.
16. Time according to its common reckoning by years, kalpas and
yuga-ages, is classed among the categories of substance; but time far
from being a substance, is the source of all substances.
17. Men of deluded understanding are subject to the errors, arising
from the like cause of their fallacy; and it was owing to this false
conception, that the Bhota and Kiri people, fell into the very same
error. (Like cause means, the same kind of bias or prejudice &c.).
18. Therefore employ thyself to do thy duty, and try to know thy
true-self; get rid of the error of thy personality (as so and so), and
move about as freely as I do by myself (as a free aerial spirit).
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