The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol 4 (of 4), Part 1 (of 2)Valmiki
Religion
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
36. The wise man who has curbed his desire of worldly enjoyments, and is
liberated from its bonds; remains with his cool and composed mind, and
enjoys the tranquility of nirvána, without his efforts of yoga
meditation.
37. As the course of water is always to run downward, and never to rise
upward; so the course of the mind is ever toward the objects of sense,
and sensible objects are the only delight of the mind.
38. The nature of the mind, with all its thoughts of internal and
external objects, is of the same kind as that of the great ocean, which
is full with the waters of its tributary rivers as well as those of the
internal waters.
39. As a river flows in one united course, of the waters of all its
confluent streams; so doth the mind run in an unvaried course, with all
its internal and external, and righteous and unrighteous thoughts.
40. Thus the mind appears as a vast and wide extended sea, and rolling
on with all its indistinct thoughts and feelings, as the inseparable
waters and waves of the sea.
41. In this manner, the absence of one thing causes the extinction of
both, as in the case of the air and its fluctuation; either of which
being wanting, there is neither the wind nor its ventilation. (Such is
the intimate connection between the mind and its thought).
42. The mind and its working being one and the samething, they are both
controuled at once by bringing the other under subjection; know this
well, nobody should cherish any earthly desire in order to foster his
mind.
43. The mind may get its peace by true knowledge, and the mind of the
wise man is destroyed of itself with all its desires, without the aid of
austerities to destroy them.
44. As a man gets freed from the fear of the enmity of an enemy, by
destroying his effigy made of mud by himself, so is one enabled to kill
his mind, by committing himself to the Divine spirit.
45. The wise man sees the cosmos and chaos as concomitant with each
other, though appear as separate. The birth and death as well as
prosperity and adversity are mere error, there is nothing else beside
one infinity.
46. As one has no knowledge of the dream of another sleeping by his
side, and as the adult man has no fear of yaksha like timid boy; and as
a giant knows no _Pisacha_ or demon, so the wise sees no insensible
world before him (but all full of the Intellect of God).
47. The ignorant think the wise as fools, and the old barren woman
thinks of her conception; so one unacquainted with the meaning of a
word, attempts to explain its sense (all which is absurd).
48. The understanding is ever existent, and without having its beginning
and end; and nature is known to exist ever since creation has began. The
word mind is meaningless and is undivided and unbounded in its nature.
(The mind or understanding is everlasting but nature is not so).
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