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. Seeing the endless particulars in the universe, do thou remain free
from all particularities as I, myself, thou, thyself &c., and think
thyself in the sole and Supreme One, if thou shalt have thy liberation.
33. Know the knowledge of the particulars, is for thy bondage alone to
them, and thy ignorance of them lends only to thy liberation (from all
these trammels). Sit as thou art and doing thy business, in thy state of
tranquility and total nescience of everything.
34. Let not the visibles attract thy sight, nor allow their thoughts
engross thy mind; thus the world disappearing with thy thoughtlessness
of it, say what else have you to think about.
35. The absence of the states of the visible and its looker _i.e._ of
the subjective and objective, resembling the state of the waking
sleeper, will make remain as void of thoughts, as the vault of the
autumnal sky is devoid of clouds.
36. The Knowledge of the action of the divine Intellect, as distinct
from the invariable of Brahma, is the cause of our making a distinction
of the creation from its creator; just as our knowledge of the
difference of the wind from air, causes us to think of their duality. It
is therefore our want of this distinction, and the knowledge of the
unity of Brahma, that leads us to our liberation.
37. The knowledge of the inflation of the divine spirit, is verily the
cause of our knowledge of the world; whereas the absence of this
knowledge, and want of our own intellection, is what is called our
_nirvána_ or utter extinction in God.
38. As the seed is conscious of the sprout growing out of it to be of
its own kind, so the divine Intellect knows the world that is produced
from it, to be self-same with itself.
39. As the seed becomes the plant from its conception of the same in
itself, so the divine Intellect becomes the creation itself from its
concept of the same.
40. As the thoughts are but the various modifications of the mind, so
the creation is a modality of the divine Intellect; and in this case all
kinds of seeds serve as instances, of having their products of the same
nature.
41. The world is the changeless form of the unchanging essence of One,
and know to be as unchangeable and undecaying as One, himself, who is
without beginning and end.
42. The divine soul is replete with its innate will, whereby it produces
and destroys the world out of and into itself; this form of unity and
duality, is as the appearance and disappearance of an imaginary city.
43. As you have no distinct idea of the things, expressed by the words
sky and vacuum; so must you know the words Brahma and creation to bear
no distinction in the divine spirit. (Creation being but the breathing
or inflation of the spirit and inseparable from it).
44. The great Intellect or omniscience, which is the sempiternal form of
divine essence, has the knowledge of the ego coeternal with itself,
which men by ignorance assume to themselves.
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