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
11. The luminous One appearing as deep darkness of chaos, and the oldest
in time manifested as the new born creation; and the One minuter than an
atom, bearing the boundless universe in its bosom.
12. He the soul of all, is yet unseen or dimly seen in all these his
works; and though boundless and endless in Himself, he appears as
bounded in the multitudinous works of his creation.
13. Being beyond illusion, He binds the world in delusion; and being
ineffable light, he centres his brightness in the dazzling sun. Know
then, O best of inquirers, that Brahma resembles the endless expanse of
the vast ocean.
14. This immense treasure of the universe, so enormous in its bulk,
appears yet as light as a feather, when put into balance with the
immensity of Brahma; and the rays of his illusion, eluding the
moon-beams in their transparency, are as invisible as the glare of the
mirage.
15. Brahma is boundless and unfordable (as the ocean), and is situated
in no time nor place nor in the sky, where he has set the forests of the
clusters of the stars, and the huge mountains of the orbs of planets.
16. He is minutest of the minute (by his inhering in the bodies of the
smallest minutiae); and the bulkiest of the bulky. He is the greatest
among the great, and the chiefest of the chief.
17. He is neither the doer, deed nor instrument of doing anything; and
neither is the cause of another, nor has he any cause for himself. (In
Vedánta, all causality is denied of the all pervading Brahma). And being
all empty within, Brahma is full in Himself.
18. The world which is the great casket of its contents, is as void as a
vast desert; and notwithstanding its containing the countless massy and
stony mountains in it, it is as ductile as the plastic ether and as
subtile as the rarefied air.
19. All things however time worn appear anew every day; the light
becomes dark by night, and darkness is changed to light again.
20. Things present become invisible to sight, and objects at a distance
present themselves to view, the intellectual changes to the material,
and the material vanishes to the superphysical (thought or spirit).
21. The ego becomes the non-ego, and the non-ego changes to the ego; one
becomes the ego of another, and that other and the ego, become as
something other and different than the ego.
22. The full ocean of the bosom of Brahma, gives rise to the innumerable
waves of world; and these waves like worlds evolve from and dissolve
into the ocean of Brahma’s breast, by their liquid like and plastic
nature.
23. The vacuous body of Brahma bears a snow white brightness over all
its parts, whence the whole creations is full of a light as fair as snow
and frost. (Light is the first appearance or work of God, and envelopes
the whole universe that was formed in and after it).
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