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
32. I have now come to know the nullity of the mind, and that it is put
to death by my power; I have hence given up my concern with it, and
betaken to my reliance in the ever existent soul only.
33. It is by good luck, that the living liberated men come to know
the demise of their minds; and cease to spend their lives under the
illusion of its existence.
34. Having driven away the deceitful demon of the mind, from the
mansion of my body; I am situated at rest without any troublesome
thought or turbulent passion in me.
35. I smile to think in myself the many follies, to which I was led for
a long time under the influence of my demoniac mind.
36. It is by my good fortune, that the gigantic demon of my mind, is
at last vanquished by the sword of my reason, and driven out of the
mansion of my body.
37. It is by my good fortune also, that my heart is after all purified
from its evil inclination, by the suppression of my demoniac mind; and
that my soul now rests alone in peace, in the abode of my body.
38. With the death of the mind, there is an end of my egoism and all my
troublesome thoughts and cares; and the expulsion of the ogres of evil
passions from my breast, by the breath or _mantra_ of reason, has made
it a place of rest for my soul.
39. What is this mind with its egoism and eager expectations to me,
than a family of intractable inmates, of whom I have fortunately got
rid by their wholesale deaths.
40. I hail that pure and ever prosperous soul which is self-same with my
inward soul, and identic with the immutable intellect; (and not with
the changeful mind).
41. I hail that ego in me, which is yet not myself nor I nor any other
person, nor is it subject to sorrow or error.
42. I hail that ego in me, which has no action nor agency, nor any
desire nor worldly affair of its own. It has no body nor does it eat or
sleep (but it is as itself).
43. This ego is not myself nor any other, and there is nothing as I
or anybody else. The ego is all in all, and I bow down to that being.
(There is no direct evidence as what the ego is, but is pointed by mere
indirect and negative evidences as what it is not).
44. The ego is the first cause and support of all, it is the intellect
and the soul of all worlds. It is the whole without parts; I therefore
bow down to that ego.
45. I prostrate to the self-same Ego of all, which is eternal and
immutable, which is the sole immense soul and without its parts. It is
all, in all and abides at all times.
46. It is without any form or designation, and is manifest as the
immense spirit. It abides in itself, and I bow down to that ego.
47. It is the same in all things in its too minute form, and is the
manifester of the universe. It is the essence of my existence and
abiding in me, in which state I bow down to it.
48. It is the earth and ocean with all their hills and rivers, which
are not the ego, nor they are the ego itself. I bow to the selfsame ego
which comprises the world with all its contents.
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