The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 3 (of 4), Part 1 (of 2) — John Shaqi
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
51. O ye wise and intelligent men! rely on the want of cravings of
your heart, which is your greatest good fortune, by setting you to the
bliss of safety and security, and beyond the reach of the dangers and
difficulties of the world.
52. Ráma! you have nothing to desire in this world, nor are you led
away by worldly desires, like one who is borne in a car, and thinks
that his side-views are receding back from him.
53. O intelligent Ráma! why do you fall into the error of ignorant men,
by taking this thing to be yours and that as another’s by the delusion
of your mind? (For all things are the Lord God’s for ever more, and
mortal men are but the poor pensioners of a day).
54. The whole world is the self-same spirit, and all its variety is in
perfect uniformity with the supreme soul; the learned know that the
world is eternally the same and unvaried in itself, and do not grieve
at the apparent changes of things and vicissitudes of times.
55. Seeing all things in their true light, to be a manifestation of the
divine essence; all intelligent men place their dependance in Him (as
the support and substance of all), and do not desire for any thing else.
56. Rely therefore on that invariable state of things, which is free
from the conditions of existence and inexistence and of beginning and
end (and this is the everlasting essence of God which fills the whole).
57. This illusive enchantment of the world flies afar before the
indifference of strongminded men; as the timid fawn flies off at the
sight of the ferocious lion.
58. Men of subdued passions and sedate minds, regard the graces of
fairy forms, to be no more than the loveliness of wild creepers, or the
fading beauty of dilapidated statues of stone.
59. No pleasures gladden their hearts nor dangers depress their
spirits; no outward good or bad can make any effect on their minds,
which are as inflexible as the firm rocks against the violence of winds.
60. The mind of the magnanimous sage, is as impregnable as a rock,
which baffles the blandishments of youthful damsels, and breaks the
darts of love to pieces, and falling down as pulverised atoms of dust
and ashes.
61. One knowing his self, is not carried away by his fondness or
aversion of any person or thing; because the heart which has no
vibration in it, is insensible of all feelings.
62. The dispassionate man who looks on all things with an equal eye,
is as insensible as a stone of the charms of blooming maids; and is as
averse to pernicious pleasures as a traveller is to the sandy desert.
63. All things necessary for life, are obtained with little labour of
those, who are indifferently minded about their gain; and the wise
get the free gifts of nature, with as much ease as the eye sight gets
the solar light. (Nature’s bounties of air and light and of water and
vegetable food, which are essential to life, are denied to nobody).
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