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
80. Those who are acquainted with truth, took upon fairy forms and
features in no better light than as paintings and pictures with respect
to their outward bodies.
81. The sable locks and crimson lips of the fairy, are portrayed as in
black and red in a picture; so there is no difference of the figure in
its living form or in painting.
82. The idea of sweetness which is accompanied with that of molasses,
is not to be separated in the mind even by its separation from the
body; in the same manner the idea of bliss is inseparably accompanied
with that of the soul, which is indestructible by the destruction of
the body.
83. Spiritual felicity may be enjoyed in this corporeal body, in the
same manner, as one enjoys the pleasure of imagination, while he is
occupied with his bodily functions.
84. Thus a man who is steadfast in his spiritual meditation, and intent
upon the supreme soul, is not to be turned away from it by the power
of the gods, or by the jealousy of Indra (for the preservation of his
dignity, from its being superceded by an austere devotee).
85. As there is no lover of a licentious woman, that can turn her heart
from the dearest object of her love; so there is nothing in the world
that can alienate the fickle mind, from its love of spiritual joy.
86. There is no such joy in the whole world, which is able to divert
the mind of the magnanimous philosopher, from its reliance on the
delight of intellectual light.
87. As a domiciled woman who is subject to all domestic toils and
privations, and is constantly employed in her household drudgeries,
and subjected to maltreatment under the subjection of her husband and
father-in-law:—
88. Has still the comfort of thinking on her sweet heart, and dissipate
her sorrows with the thought of her favourite lover; such is the mystic
love of spiritualists (as that of Persean Mystic poets).
89. So the man who is bound to the cares of worldly affairs, has
the consolation of his soul and spiritual bliss, by freeing his
mind from ignorance, and conducting himself in the right way, by
his comprehensive view of all things. (The worldly man may have the
blessing of spiritualism).
90. He does not break under his bodily torture, nor does he wail with
his bleeding heart and weeping eyes; he is not burnt by the flame of
his martyrdom, nor does he die when perishing under the scourge of
the stake and stock of persecution. (As the crucifixion of Mandavy
did not alter the tenor of his mind. _Gloss._ Nor the unity of Mansur
belief was changed by the cruciating pains of the cross. So says Hafiz.
_Kashad maqshe Ana-al Haq bar Zamin Khun; cho Mansur ar Kuni bar daram
imshab_).
91. The mind is free from the pain and pleasure which befal to the
lot of humanity, and is unmoved amidst all the mishaps of fortune.
The devotee rejoices in the region of his spiritual bliss, whether he
remains in his hermitage in the forest, or wanders about in deserts, or
ranges wide over mountains.
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