The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 3 (of 4), Part 1 (of 2)Valmiki
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The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 3 (of 4), Part 1 (of 2)
Valmiki
Hinduism -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800; Religious life -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800
14. Know that mind also, to be dead and cold, which is not moved by
difficulties and dangers; nor excited by pride and giddiness, nor
elated by festivity nor depressed by poverty and penury; and in short
which does not lose its serene temperament at any reverse of fortune.
15. Know, gentle Ráma! this is what is meant by the death of the mind,
and the numbness of the heart; and this is the inseparable property of
living liberation (of those that are liberated in their lifetime).
16. Know mindfulness to be foolishness, and unmindedness is true
wisdom; and it is upon the extinction of mental affections, that the
pure essence of the mind appears to light.
17. This display of the intrinsic quality of the mind, after the
extinction of its emotions; and this temperament of the mind of the
living liberated persons, is said by some to be the true nature of the
mind.
18. The mind that is fraught with the benevolent qualities, has its
best wishes for all living beings in nature; it is freed from the pains
of repeated births in this world of woe, and is called the living
liberated mind (_Jívan-mukta manas_).
19. The nature of the living liberated mind is said to be its intrinsic
essence, which is replete with its holy wishes, and exempted from the
doom of transmigration.
20. The _Swarúpa_ or personal mind, is what has the notion of its
personality as distinct from its body; and this is the nature of the
mind of those, that are liberated in their lifetime. (This is the
nature of the individual and unembodied mind).
21. But when the living liberated person loses the individuality of his
mind; and becomes as gladsome as moonbeams within himself, by virtue of
his universal benevolence; it then becomes as expanded and extended, as
it appears to be present everywhere at all times.
22. The living liberated person being mindless of himself, becomes as
cold hearted as a plant growing in a frigid climate, where it blooms
with its mild virtues, likening the blossoms of the winter plant.
23. The _Arúpa_ or impersonal mind of what I have told you before, is
the coolness of the disembodied soul, that is altogether liberated from
the consciousness of its personality.
24. All the excellent virtues and qualities, which reside in the
embodied soul, are utterly lost and drowned in the disembodied soul,
upon its liberation from the knowledge of its personality.
25. In the case of disembodied liberation, the consciousness of self
personality being lost, the mind also loses its formal existence in
_Virúpa_ or formlessness, when there remains nothing of it.
26. There remains no more any merit or demerit of it, nor its beauty
or deformity; it neither shines nor sets any more, nor is there any
consciousness of pain or pleasure in it.
27. It has no sense of light or darkness, nor the perception of day and
night; it has no knowledge of space and sky, nor of the sides, altitude
or depth of the firmament.
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