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
34. Whose soul is serene, and his intellect unclouded by the doubts of
unity and duality; his desires turned to indifference and all his
thoughts concentrated in the Lord.
35. Whose knowledge of duality, has entirely subsided in his intellect;
and whose belief of unity is without the alloy of the union of any other
thing (in the sole and perfectly pure One); who is quite at ease and
without any uneasiness, and resides calmly in the tranquility of the
Supreme soul.
36. He has no object to gain by his acts, nor anything to lose by their
omission; he has no concern whatever with any person or thing either for
aught of his good or otherwise.
37. He is indifferent both to his desire as well as to his coolness, nor
has he any care for the reality or unreality of things; he is not
concerned about himself or others, nor is he in love with his life nor
fear of death.
38. The self-extinguished soul of the enlightened, never feels any
desire stirring in itself; and if ever any wish is felt to rise in his
breast, it is only an agitation of Brahma in it.
39. To him there is no pleasure or pain, nor grief or joy; but he views
the world as the quiet and increate soul of the Divinity manifest by
itself; the man that goes on in this manner, like the course of a
subterranean stream, is truly called the enlightened and awakened.
40. He who makes a pleasure of his pain in his thought, is as one who
takes the bitter poison for his sweet nectar; the man who thus converts
the evil to good, and thinks himself happy in his mind is said by the
wise, to be awakened to his right sense (to wit that all partial evil is
universal good).
41. Thinking one’s self as vacuity, with the vacuum of Brahma; and as
quiet as the tranquility of the Divine spirit; and the thought of every
thing resting in the spacious mind of God, is tantamount to the belief
of the world as one with Brahma himself. (This is the doctrine of
pantheism of vedánta and all mysticism).
42. In this manner all consciousness is lost in unconsciousness, and the
knowledge of the world, is lost in the infinity of empty air. The error
of our egoism is likewise drowned in the depth of the even and vast
expanse of the Divine unity.
43. All that is seen here in the forms of the moving and fixed bodies of
the world (the roving and fixed stars &c.); are all as quiet as
quiescent empty sky which contains them, or as a visionary utopia of
imagination.
44. As there is a free intercourse of the thoughts, of one person with
those of another, and there is no interposition in their passage from
one mind to another; in the same manner there is the same reflection of
this shadowy world in the minds of all at once.
45. The earth, heaven and sea, with the hills and all other things,
appear before our empty minds, exactly as the false sights of water &c.,
appear in a mirage to our eyes.
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