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
40. The soul which is conscious of its innate images, sees the same in
their intellectual appearances within the mind, and in their external
manifestations in the visible creation.
41. He who has his internal and external tranquility, and enjoys his
peace of mind, and views the world inseparable from the soul, enjoys
his quiet _samádhi_ everywhere; but he who perceives their difference,
and differentiates his egoism from all others (that is, who sees his
distinction from other beings), he is ever subject to be tossed about,
as by the rolling waves of the sea.
42. The soul that is infested by the maladies of this world, sees the
earth, sky, air and water, together with the hills and all things in
them, burning before it as in the conflagration, of the last day of
dissolution (_pralaya_).
43. He who performs his work with his organs of action, and has his
soul fixed in its internal meditation; and is not moved by any joy or
grief, is called the dispassionate yogi.
44. He who beholds the all pervading soul in his own self, and by
remaining unruffled in his mind, doth never grieve at nor thinks about
any thing; is styled the unimpassioned yogi.
45. Who looks calmly into the course of the world, as it has passed or
is present before him, and sits still smiling at its vicissitudes, that
man is named the unpassionate yogi.
46. Because these changing phenomena do not appertain to unchanging
spirit of God, nor do they participate with my own egoism (_i.e._ they
are no parts, of God or myself); they but resemble the glittering atoms
of gold in the bright sun-shine which do not exist in the sky.
47. He who has no sense of egoism or tuism in himself, nor the
distinction of things in his mind, as of the sensible and insensible
ones; is the one that truly exists, and not the other who thinks
otherwise. (So says the Sruti:—The one alike in all is the All, and
not the other, who is unlike every thing).
48. He who conducts all his affairs with ease, by his remaining as the
intangible and translucent air about him, and who remains as insensible
of his joy and sorrow, as a block of wood or stone, is the man that is
called the sedate and quiet.
49. He who of his own nature and not through fear, looks on all beings
as himself, and accounts the goods of others as worthless stones; is
the man that sees them in their true light.
50. No object whether great or small, is slighted as a trifle by the
polished or foolish; they value all things, but do not perceive in
their hearts, the Reality that abides in them like the wise. (Fools
look into the forms of things, but the wise look in their in being).
51. One possessed of such indifference and equality of his mind,
attains to his highest perfection; and is quite unconcerned with regard
to his rise and fall, and about his life and death.
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