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
25. Brahmá evolves himself in his creation and does not produce the
world like the fruit from the seed; therefore know the world as the
vacuous heart of Brahmá, and is neither born nor unborn of itself.
26. The viewer viewing the view, is unable to see himself (his inward
soul) because his consciousness being engrossed by external objects, is
disabled from looking into itself.
27. Of what avail is sagacity to one, whose mind labours under the
error of water in a mirage; and what power has the mirage over a mind,
which is possessed of its sagacity?
28. As the looker on the clear sky does not see every part of it, and
as the eye that looks on all others does not see itself; so we see
everything about us besides ourselves.
29. As the looker on the clear sky, does not see what is above the
skies; so we see ourselves and others as material beings; but cannot
see the inward part of the immaterial soul, as the wise men do.
30. Brahmá who is as clear as the firmament, cannot be perceived by all
our endeavours; because the sight of the sky as a visible thing, cannot
give us an insight into the invisible Brahmá; (which fills all space
with his presence).
31. Such a sight cannot present itself to us, unless we can see the
true form of God; but it is far from being visible to the beholder, as
the sight of subtilest things.
32. We see the outward sight because we cannot see the beholder of the
sight (_i.e._ God himself who beholds his works). The beholder (God) is
only the existent being, and the visibles are all nothing.
33. But the all seeing God, being permeated in the visibles; there can
be no beholding of him as a personal God, nor of them as distinct
things. Because whatever the Almighty King proposes to do, he instantly
forms their notions, and becomes the same himself.
34. As the sweet saccharine juice of the sugarcane, thickens itself
into the form of the sugarcandy; so the will of God, becomes compact in
the solid body of the universe.
35. As the moisture of the ground and of the vernal season, becomes
incorporated in vegetable life, bringing forth the fruits and flowers;
so the energy of the Divine Intellect, turns itself into the living
spirit; which shortly appears in a corporeal form (of the body and its
limbs).
36. As every thing is beheld in our sight, without being separated from
its idea in the mind; so the inward notion, shows itself in the shape
of the visible object, like the vision in a dream, which is but a
representation of the thoughts entertained in our minds. (_i.e._ The
thought is the archetype of the appearance).
37. The ideas of self and others, are as granules in the mind, and are
like the grains of salt, which are produced in the briny grounds from
moisture of the earth (_i.e._ saline particles, produced of terrene and
marine serosity). So the multitudes of thoughts in the mind, are
exactly as the globules of salt or sand on the seashore: (almost
infinite in their number).
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