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
38. As the serum of the earth appears in various shapes (of minerals
and vegetables); so the sap of the intellect, produces the infinity of
ideas and thoughts, growing as trees in the wilderness of the mind.
39. These trees again shoot forth in branches and leaves, of which
there is no end; and so is every other world like a forest, supplying
its sap to innumerable plants, like the thoughts in the mind.
40. The intellect perceives in itself the existence of everything, as
distinctly as the inherent power of the living soul exhibits itself in
creation. (The power of the soul is its reminiscence (sanskára) of the
past, which reproduces and presents the former impressions in its
subsequent states of birth).
41. Every one’s intellect, perceives the existence of the world, in the
same manner as his living soul, happens to meet with every thing, as
present before it, by virtue of its former acts, and their reminiscence
stampt in it.[2]
42. There are some living souls, which meet and join with others and
propagate their species; and then cease to exist after having lived a
long time together.
43. You must observe with your keensightedness and well discerning
mind, in order to look into the different states and thoughts of
others. (Read the minds in their outward look and indications).
44. There are thousands of worlds like atoms of earth, contained in the
mind; as in the ample space of the sky and in the particles of water;
and these reside in those atoms like oil in the mustard seeds.
45. When the mind becomes perfect, it comes to be the living being; and
the intellect being purified, becomes all pervasive. Hence is the union
of the intellect with the living spirit.
46. The self-entity of the lotus-born Brahmá and all other living
beings, is only their self-deception; and the sense of the existence of
the world, is as a protracted dream rising and setting in the mind.
47. Some beings pass into successive states of existence, as a man
passes from one dream to another; and they think themselves to be
firmly established in them, as one supposes to be settled in some
house, appearing to him in his dream.
48. Whatever the intellect dwells upon at any time or place, it
immediately sees the same appearing therein before it; as anything
which is seen in dream, appears to be true to the dreamer all that time.
49. The atom of the intellect, contains the particles of all our
notions; as the seed-vessel contains the farinaceous atoms of the
future fruits and flowers, and branches and leaves (of very large
trees).
50. I consider the atoms of the intellect and the mind, contained
within the particles, of the material body, to be both vacuous, and
joined in one without causing a duality in their nature.
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