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
26. He knows rightly, who knows the Ego to be as minute as a millionth
or billionth part of the point of a hair, and pervading all over the
infinity of space and eternity of time.
27. He perceives rightly, who perceives the universal soul to be
permeated in all the various objects of his sight; and knows them as
sparks of the Intellectual Light.
28. He perceives rightly, who perceives within himself the omnipotence
of the infinite Spirit, to be present in all the states and conditions
of beings, and the self-same Intellect to abide in and preside over all.
29. He understands rightly, who understands by his wisdom, that he is
not his body, which is subject to diseases and dangers, to fears and
anxieties, and to the pain and pangs of old age and death.
30. He understands rightly, who understands his soul to stretch above
and below and all about him; whose magnitude has no bounds nor an equal
to it.
31. He knows, full well who kens his soul as a string (Sútrátmá), to
which all things are strung as gems in a jewel; and that it is not the
mind or heart, which is seated in the brain or bosom.
32. He kens rightly, who weens neither himself nor any thing else as
existent, except the imperishable-Brahma; and who knows himself as
living between the reality and unreality, (_i.e._ betwixt the present
and absent, and between the visible and invisible. Gloss).
33. He is right, who beholds what they call the three worlds, to be but
parts of his self, and have been rolling about him as the waves of the
sea.
34. He is wise, who looks with pity upon the frail world, and
compassionates the earth as his younger sister.
35. That great soul looks brightly upon the earth, who has withdrawn
his mind from it, by retrenching his reliance on his egoism or tuism,
(_i.e._ both on his subjectivity and objectivity).
36. He sees the truth, who finds his body and the whole world, filled
by the colossus figure of the Intellect, without the opposition of any
sensible object.
37. He that looks on the states of misery and happiness, which attend
on worldly life, to be but the fluctuating conditions of the ego, has
no cause to repine or rejoice at them.
38. He is the right-sighted man, who sees himself situated amidst the
world, which is filled with the divine spirit, (and the endless joy
emanating from it); he has nothing to desire or dislike in this (or in
his future) state of existence.
39. He is the right (discerning) man, who has weakened his estimation
and dislike of what is desirable and disgusting to him in the world,
which is full of the essence of that being, whose nature is beyond
comprehension and conception. (The world being full with the presence
of God, we have nothing to like or dislike, or to take or shun in it).
40. That great-souled man is a great god, whose soul like the
all-pervading sky extends over all, and penetrates through every state
of existence, without receiving the tincture of any. (Who is informed
with all and untinged by any).
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