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
69. The world is a picture painted on the airy surface of the divine
mind, with the various colours derived from the intellect of God; it
never rises nor sets, nor does it ever become faint, nor does it fade
nor vanishes away.
70. The world is a huge wave of fluidity in the water of the Intellect,
why is it so and how produced, and how and when it is subside, is what
nobody can say. (The world is once compared to breath of air and here to
a liquid, to mean its having no solidity in it).
71. When the great vacuity of the intellect is calm and quiet, then the
world remains in its form of an empty void also; just as the soul being
quite thoughtless in itself; there can be no rise or fall of any object
before it. (Hence the alternate action and rest of the divine spirit, is
said to cause the appearance and disappearance of the world by turns.
Manu I).
72. As we imagine the mountains to touch the skies, and the sky to
present the figures of mountains in it; it is in the like manner that we
suppose the presence of Brahma in all things of creation. (But all this
supposititious knowledge proceeds from error).
73. It is by the application of a jot of their intelligence, that yogis
convert the world to empty air, as also fill the hollow air with the
three worlds up and down. (_i.e._ They are practised to produce
everything as also to reduce it to nothing in their thought).
74. As we imagine thousands of the elysian cities (or seats) of the
siddha deities, to be situated in the different regions of heaven; so
are the numberless worlds scattered apart from one another in the
infinite space of divine intellect.
75. As the eddies in the ocean whirl apart from one another, and seem to
make so many seas of themselves; though they are composed of the same
water.
76. So the numerous worlds, revolving separately in the vacuity of the
Divine Intellect, are all of the same nature (with their intellectual
reservoir), and not otherwise.
77. The awakened (or enlightened) yogi, views worlds above worlds in his
clairvoyance; and to pass to the ethereal regions of the perfected
siddhas, as it is related by sages (in the story of Lílá narrated
before).
78. There are numberless imperishable beings and immortal spirits, which
are contained in the Supreme spirit; as the endless worlds are situated
in the hollow sphere of heaven.
79. It is the intrinsic pleasure of the divine soul, to scatter the
wandering worlds about it, as the odorous flower diffuses its immanent
fragrance, and spreads its flying farina all around; they are not
extrinsic or adventitious, but are born within itself like the lines and
marks in a diamond or crystal.
80. The fragrance of flowers though mixed up together in the air, are
yet separate from one another; so are all the created bodies existing
together in the air, all distinct in their natures: (such is the union
of the different elements in one body, and as every flower has a vassal
breeze to bear its own perfume).
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