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
5. That you are everywhere in all the three worlds together with the
soul abiding in them; and that you are no other than the unity itself;
nor is there any duality of any body, apart from the unity which
pervades the whole.
6. Being certain of this truth, you will see the innumerable worlds
situated in thy internal soul; and by this means you will escape from
being subjected to, or overcome by the joys and sorrows of life.
7. Say, O lotus-eyed Ráma! how can you call one as connected with
or separate from you, when you know the whole world together with
yourself, to be contained in the all-containing universal soul.
8. Say, do the wise live beside that being, that they should give way
to joy or grief, which are the two phases of the universal soul? (The
unwise who think themselves other than the one, may be affected by such
changes).
9. There are two kinds of egoisms growing out of the knowledge of
truth, and both of these are good and pure in their natures, and
productive of spirituality and liberation of men.
10. The one is the _ego_ of the form of a minute particle, transcending
all things in its minuteness; and the other is the _ego_ of one’s
self. The first is that the one _ego_ is all, and the second is the
knowledge, that my or thy _ego_ is the same one.
11. There is a third sort of egoism amounting to the _non-ego_, which
takes the body for the ego, and thus becomes subject to misery, and
finds no rest in this life nor in the next.
12. Now leaving all these three kinds of subjective, objective and non
egoisms; he who holds fast the fourth sort—_non-ego_, sees the sole
intellect beyond these three.
13. This essence being above all and beyond the reach of all existence,
is still the manifesting soul of the unreal world.
14. Look into it in thy notion of it, and thou shall find thyself
assimilated to it; and then get rid of all thy desires and ties of thy
heart herein, and become full of divine knowledge.
15. The soul is neither known by any logical inference, nor from the
light the revelations of the vedas; it is always best and most fully
known to be present with us by our notion of it.
16. All the sensations and vibrations that we have in our bodies, and
all the thoughts we are conscious of in our minds, are all affections
of the sovereign soul, which is beyond our vision and the visibles.
(Invisible yet best seen in all its works and workings in us).
17. This Lord is no real substance, nor an unreal non-entity; He is not
a minutiae nor a vast massiveness neither; He is not in the midst of
these dimensions, nor is he this or that, but is always as he is. (I am
that I am; says the Revelation).
18. It is improper to tell him such and such, or that he is otherwise
than this or that; know him therefore as the inexpressible and
undefinable one.
19. To say this is the soul and not the soul, is only a verbal
difference of what no words can express or differentiate; it is the
omnipresent power to which the soul is attributed.
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