The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol 4 (of 4), Part 1 (of 2)Valmiki
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The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol 4 (of 4), Part 1 (of 2)
Valmiki
Hinduism -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800; Religious life -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800
32. There is no cause whatever, which can be reasonably assigned to the
agitation, consciousness and creations of the spirit of Brahma; which
being above nature is said to have no nature at all. Its agitation is as
that of the air; whose cause is beyond all conception.
33. Brahma has his thoughts rising in him, as waves in the ocean of
himself, and as our consciousness of the dreams rising in our soul; and
the nature of this creation is in reality, neither as that of his dream,
or the wave produced from his essence. (It is hard to say, whether this
is a thought of himself as a dream, or a part of him like a wave).
34. This much therefore can only be said of him that, there is only an
unknowable unity, which is ever the same and never as quick as thought,
nor even as dull as matter; it is not a reality or unreality, nor any
thing this positive or negative. (In a word, it is nothing that
conceivable by the human mind).
35. The Yogi that remains in this _insouciant_ state of Brahma, and
insensible of his own consciousness (_i.e._ who is inexcitable both in
his body and mind), such a person is said to be the best of sages and
saints.
36. Who becomes inactive and inert as a clod of earth, even while he is
alive; who becomes unconscious of himself and the outer world, and
thinks of nothing (except the Supreme soul); he is said as the best of
sages and saints.
37. As we lose sight of wished for objects, by ceasing to wish for them
(such as the sights of fairy lands &c.); so we get rid of our knowledge
of ourselves and the world, by our ceasing to think about them (by
confining our thoughts in God alone).
38. All things expressed, in words have certain causes assigned to them;
but the cause of their nature remains inexplicable, (whence
nature—_swabháva_ is said to be _avidyá_ or hidden ignorance). It is the
cause of this prime nature (_i.e._ God), whose knowledge alone conduces
to our liberations (from ignorance).
39. Nothing whatever has its particular nature of itself, unless it were
implanted in it by the intelligence of God, as it were by infusion of
the moisture of divine intelligence.
40. All our thoughts, are agitated by inspiration of the breath of the
great intellect; know them therefore as proceeding from the vacuum of
the entity of the supreme Brahma.
41. There is no difference whatever, in the different nature of the
creator and creation; except it be as that of the air and its agitation,
which are the one and same thing and of the same nature. The thought of
their difference is as erroneous, as the sight of one’s death in his
dream.
42. An error continues so long, as the blunder does not become evident
by the light of reasoning; when the error being cleared of its falsity,
flies to and vanishes into the light and truth of Brahma.
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