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
2. I will tell you the same openly what he admonished in secret to his
senses; and by hearing these expostulations of him, you will be set
above the reach of misery.
3. O my senses, said he, I know your special essences to be for our
misery only; and therefore I pray you, to give up your intrinsic
natures for the sake of my happiness.
4. My admonitions will serve to annihilate your actualities, which are
no more than the creatures of ignorance.
5. The amusement of the mind with the exilition of its sensitivity, is
the cause of its fury and fever heat, as the kindlings of fire is for
burning one’s self or others in its flame. (_i.e._ The excitement of
passions and sensations is painful to the peaceful mind of man).
6. The mind being disturbed and bewildered, makes the restless feelings
and sensations, flow and fall to it, with the fierceness of boisterous
rivers falling into the sea, which it breaks out and runs in the form
of many a frith and firth into the land. (_i.e._ The sensational man is
subject to the excess of sensitive excitability and intolerance).
7. The sensitive minds burst forth in the passions of their pride and
egoism, clashing against one another like the conflicting clouds; and
fall in showers of hailstorms on the heads of others. (Sensational men
are bent on mutual mischief and injury).
8. The cares of prosperity and adversity, are the tormenting cankers
in their breasts, and they pierce and perforate the hearts to such a
degree, as they are intent upon uprooting them from their innermost
recesses. (Heart burning anxieties attending both on fortune and
misfortune).
9. They are attended with hiccoughs and hard breathings in the chest,
with groaning and sobbing in the lungs, like hooting owls in the hollow
of withered trees; whether covered with tufts of moss on their tops,
or resembling the hoary haired heads on the dried trunks of old and
decayed bodies. (Men growing old, yet pant and pine for riches the
more.) धनाशा जीविताशाच जीर्यतेऽपि न जीर्य्यति ।
10. The cavities of the heart inside the body, are perplexed with
crooked cares resembling the folds of snakes, hoary hairs likening hoar
frost over hanging the head, and the apish wishes lurk about in the
caves within the bosom.
11. Avarice is as a dancing stork, clattering her pair of sharp
bills (to entice men towards her); and then pull off their eyes from
their decayed frames, as also the intestinal cords of the body. (The
avaricious man is deprived of his good sense, sight and heartstrings).
12. Impure lust and lawless concupiscence, symbolized as the filthy
cock, scratches the heart as his dunghill, and sounds as shrill on
this side and that (Hence the cockish rakes are called coxcombs,
and cockneys, from their hoarse whistling as the horse neighs, and
strutting on stilts as the cock-a-hoop).
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