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
3. It must not roam over the extensive field of outward enjoyments,
nor dwell on the objects and actions of the senses. It must not look
internally, nor be fixed to the breathing, the palate and crown of the
head. (Which are certain modes of Yoga practice).
4. It must not be attached to the eye brows, the tip of the nose, the
mouth or the pupil of the eye; nor should it look into the light or
darkness, or into the cavity of the heart.
5. It must not think of its waking or dreaming states, nor those of
its sound sleep or internal clearness of sight; nor should it take any
colour as white, red, black or yellow for the object of its thought or
sight.
6. It must not be fixed on any moving or unmoving substance, nor set in
the beginning, middle or end of any object. It must not take a distant
or adjacent object either before or inside itself.
7. It must not reflect on any tangible or audible object, nor on
the states of felicity and insensibility. It must not think of the
fleetness or fastness nor the measurement of time, by the measure and
number of its thoughts.
8. Let it rest on the intellect only, with a slight intelligence of
itself; and taste of no joy except that of its self-delight.
9. Being in this state of mind, and devoid of all attachment to any
thing, the living man becomes as a dead body; when he is at liberty to
pursue his worldly callings or not.
10. The living being that is attached to the thought of itself, is said
to be doing and acting though it refrains from doing anything; and it
is then as free from the consequence of acts, as the sky is free from
the shade of the clouds that hang below it.
11. Or it may forsake its intelligential part (_i.e._ forget its
intelligence), and become one with the mass of the Intellect itself.
The living soul thus becomes calm and quiet in itself and shines with
as serene a light, as a bright gem in the mine or quarry.
12. The soul being thus extinct in itself, is said to rise in the
sphere of the Intellect; and the animal soul continuing in its acts
with an unwilling mind, is not subjected to the results of the actions
in its embodied state.
CHAPTER LXX.
PERFECT BLISS OF LIVING LIBERATION.
Argument. Living Liberation and its constituents or _Jívan mukti_.
Vasishtha continued:—Men whose souls are expanded and contented with
the delight of their habitual unattachment to worldliness; have set
themselves above the reach of internal sorrow and fear, notwithstanding
their engagement in worldly affairs.
2. And though overtaken by inward sorrow (owing to some temporal
loss); yet their countenances are unchanged owing to the uninterrupted
train of their meditation; and the fulness of their hearts with holy
delight, is manifest in the moonlike lustre of their faces.
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