The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 3 (of 4), Part 1 (of 2)Valmiki
Religion
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
26. The restless mind falls asleep, after it gets rid of its labour;
but the quiet mind has its quietus afterwards (its nirvána extinction)
(_i.e._, the one sleeps and rises again, but the other one is wholly
extinct). Therefore do as you like: (either sleep to rise again, or
sleep to wake no more).
27. Whether one gets rid of worldly things or not, it is his sight of
the infinite spirit, that makes him meek and quiet. (The worldly and
the recluse are equally holy, with their divine knowledge only).
28. He whose mind is expanded by his like indifference, to both the
objects of his desire and disgust also; and to whom all things are
alike insignificant everywhere, he is called the staid and stoic, and
the cool and meek.
29. He who sees the world in God in his inmost soul, and never as
without the Divine Spirit; and whose mind sees everything in waking as
in his sleep, is verily the lord of mankind.
30. As the market people, whether coming in or going out, are strangers
to and unrelated with one another; so the wise man looks upon the
concourse of men with unconcern, and thinks his own town a wilderness.
31. The mind which is fixed to its inward vision, and is inattentive to
external objects; thinks the populous city as a wilderness before it,
both when it is awake or asleep, and active or inactive.
32. Those who are attentive to the inward mind, sees the outer world as
a vacuous space to him; and the populous world appears as a desert
desolate to him, owing to its unworthiness of his attention.
33. The world is all cool and calm to the cold hearted, as the system
of the body is quiet cool to one without his fit of fever-heat.
34. Those that are parched with their internal thirst, find the world
as a burning conflagration to them; because everybody sees the same
without him, as he sees within himself.
35. The external world with all its earthly, watery and airy bodies,
and with all its rocks, rivers and quarters, is the counterpart of
the inner mind, and is situated without it, as it is contained within
itself.
36. The big banian tree and the little barley plants, are exact ectypes
of their antitypes in the eternal mind; and they are exhibited out of
it, as they are within it, like the fragrance of flowers diffused in
the air.
37. There is nothing situated in the inside or the outside of this
world, but they are the casts and copies, as displayed by their
patterns in the great mind of God.
38. The external world is a display of the essence, contained in the
universal soul; and appears without it from within its concealment,
like the smell of camphor coming out of its casket.
39. It is the divine soul, which manifests itself in the form of the
ego and the world also (the subjective and the objective); and all
what we see externally or think internally, either in and out of us is
unreal, except the real images which are imprinted in the soul.
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