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
57. When we meet only with the erroneousness of our past conduct, and
find them all to have been done for nothing; how then is it possible for
us to discern the hearts of others, which are as inaccessible hills unto
us. (How can we discern another’s mind, when we to our own are so
grossly blind).
58. Our dealing with the unreal world (as with untruthful men), is lost
in the glancing or twinkling of an eye; for who can expect to hold the
horns of a hare in his fingers.
59. The belief of our egoism or personality consisting in our gross
bodies, serves to convert the aerial intellect to a gross substance in a
moment; and make our mind as a part of the solid body, just as the rain
drop is congealed to the hailstone.
60. It is owing to our intellect, that we have the conception of the
reality of our unreal bodies; just as the undying principle of the
intellect, happens to see its own death in our sleep.
61. As the unreal and unsubstantial vacuum, is said to be the blue or
azure sky by its appearance; so is this creation attributed to Brahma by
supposition, which is neither real nor quite unreal.
62. As vacuity is the inseparable property of vacuum, and fluctuation is
that of air; so is creation an inseparable attribute of God, and is one
and same with the essence of Brahma himself.
63. There is nothing produced here as the world &c., nor is anything
lost or annihilated in it; all this is as a dream to a sleeping man,
which is a mere appearance and nothing in reality.
64. So the inexistent earth and others, are apparent in their appearance
only; then why need you care or fear about the being or not being of
this world, which is no more than a production and subversion of it in
the region of the Intellect.
65. The apparent body, is no reality by the causality of the elements as
the earth &c.; it is only a formation of the Divine intellect, and
situated in the divine spirit. (The body is neither formed out of the
dust of the earth, nor by a combination of the five elements; but is a
shadow of its form in the Divine mind).
66. The instrumentality of the mind &c. in the causation of the world,
is also untrue and absurd, owing to the union of two causes in one
(_i.e._ the combination of the primary and instrumental causes
together). (The unity of God consists in his being the original and
material cause, and not as a formal or instrumental one).
67. All things are uncaused and unconsecutive in the divine mind, where
they are eternally present at one and the sametime; as the whole series
of the actions of a man from his birth to death, appear in an instant of
his dreaming states. (All is ever present before the omnipresent and
omniscient).
68. All things are contained in and as inane as the vacant Intellect,
where this spacious earth with her high hills of solid bases, and all
her peoples with their actions and motions, are ever existent in their
aerial forms in the knowledge of the aeriform intellect of God.
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