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
51. So the intellect conceives within itself and of its own particles,
many other atomic germs, under the influence of particular times and
places and actions and circumstances; which cannot be extraneous from
itself. (_i.e._ All notions are the making of the mind, and not
impressions from without).
52. It is this particle of the intellect which displays the creation,
like the vision of a dream before it; and it is this conception, that
led the gods Brahmá and others to the idea of their visible bodies, as
it makes the little insects to think of their own bodies. (_i.e._ The
minds of all display the outer world subjectively to all beings).
53. All that is displayed in this (outer) world, is in reality nothing
at all; and yet do these living beings, though possessing the particles
of intellect in them, erroneously conceive the duality of an extraneous
existence.
54. Some intellects (of particular persons), display themselves in
their bodies, and derive the pleasure of their consciousness, through
the medium of their eyes and external organs. (_i.e._ Some men believe
their bodily senses as the intellect, and no mind besides).
55. Others look on outward objects as receptacles of the intellect,
from the belief that the all pervasive, inseparable and imperishable
intellect (soul), must abide in all and every one of them. (It is the
intellect which contains the material world, and not this the other, as
many think omnipresence to mean).
56. Some men view the whole gross world within the body, instead of the
all pervading intellect of Brahmá; as Viswarúpa, and these being
hardened by long habit of thinking so, are plunged in the gulph of
error. (These are the materialists and the Tántrika microcosmists).
57. These rove from one error to another, as a man sees one dream after
another; and roll about in the pit of their delusion, as a stone when
hurled from a hill downward.
58. Some persons rely on the union of the body and soul, and others
relying in the soul alone, are placed beyond the reach of error; while
there are many, who rely on their consciousness alone, and shine
thereby as rational beings. (_The Cartesians and conscientionalists_).
59. They that perceive in themselves the errors of other people, are to
be considered as under the influence of false dreams in their sleep
(but mind not themselves, that labour under the error as the dreamer).
60. God being the all pervading spirit of nature, is verily seen in the
spirit of every body; and as he is ubiquitous, his omnipresence is
present in every thing in all places. (This doctrine is the source of
pantheism, and gives rise to universal idolatry, which adores the
presiding spirit of the idol, and not the idol itself).
61. God that shines is the living soul of every body, resides also in
the soul of that soul, as also in all the living souls and mind which
are contained within the body of another. (Such as in living beings
born inside the body of another).
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