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
6. Therefore I adore that omniscience which is the soul of all, in which
all things exist and whence they all come to existence; which is all and
displays all things in itself and pervades all infinity forever.
7. When the subjective intellectual power _chinmaya_, becomes united
with the objective _Chitya_ or intelligible world, by means of the
intrinsic _Chit_ or intellect; it is then that the visible or objective
organs of sense _drishyangas_, get the sensation _chaitanya_ of their
objects and not otherwise.
8. As it is the intellect alone which is both the subjective as well as
the objective, that is both the viewer and the view, the seeing and the
sight also; it comes to the same effect, that the knowledge of all
these, is derived from and dependent upon the main intellect.
9. If the subjective and objective be not alike in the intellectual
soul, then the subjective and intellectual soul, can have no perception
of the objective and material world. (Because matter cannot enter into
the intellect, but by the ideas of things which are of an intellectual
nature).
10. It is from their intellectual nature, that the objective world is
perceived in the subjective soul; just as a drop of water mixes with the
body of waters, owing to the similarity of the natures. (Things of the
same kind easily combine with one another, by their natural affinity),
otherwise there is no combination of them as of two pieces of wood.
11. When there is no homogeneous affinity between two things as between
the intellect and a log of wood, there can be no union between them; nor
can two pieces of wood know one another, owing to their want of
intellect.
12. As the two pieces of wood have <no> knowledge of one another, owing to
their dull insensibility; so nothing insensible can be sensible of any
thing, save the intellect which is conversant with intellectuals only.
13. The great intellectual soul, beholds the world as one with itself in
its intellectual light; and sees the material bodies settled as a rock
in it, without their properties of life or motion.
14. Life, understanding and other faculties, are the products of
intellection, which the wonderful property of the intellect, rises
spontaneously in itself.
15. The essence of Brahma exists and exhibits itself in the form of the
quiescent universe, and is personified as the male agent of creation, by
his seminal seed resembling the minute seed of a fig fruit.
16. There is first of all a small seed, which developes itself to a
tree; but that first seed had another smaller seed before, from which it
was produced. Thus the primary or initial seed being the minutest of the
latter ones, is contained in and let out as an effluvium of the Supreme
soul.
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