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
49. The understanding resembles the water of the sea, and the mind and
intelligence are likened to its limpid waves; how can this fluid have an
end, and what is the meaning of mind, but a shape of this psychic fluid.
(Here is a similarity of Vasishtha’s intellectual liquid to Stahl’s
psychic fluid).
50. For all error is useless, and live to your nature for your good; and
being of the nature of pure understanding, you will become as
perspicacious as the clear autumnal sky. (Here is Vasishtha’s vacuism
again as the ultimate perfection of men).
51. After passing the three states of waking, dreaming and deep sleep
(to the fourth state of turíya or nirvána insensibility), there is
nomore any perception of the mind or mental operation to the abstracted
yogi; and then the knowledge of the endless varieties of unrealities of
creation, is blown away and lost in the sight of the everlasting One.
52. Forsake the endless chain of knowables, and be attached to thy
nature of the solid intellect; because all things whether internal or
external, are comprehended under its knowledge.
53. Say how can you separate the objects from the mind, as you do the
seed, branches and fruits from one another; the knowables are unknowable
without their knowledge, and knowledge is no known category (apart from
the mind).
54. The endless varieties and particulars are still and quiet in the
Divine soul, which is the only entity and manifest of itself as all. The
objects being but ideas in the mind and this being a negative also, they
are all but errors of the brain. (The mind and its objective ideas being
dependent to and identic with one another, the conception of them is
altogether erroneous).
55. The mind which is the framer of objective thoughts, is a nihility of
itself and an error also. The eternal spirit being the sole soul of all,
it is useless to imagine the entity of the mind.
56. The objective being an erroneous notion, is but a false apparition
appearing to sight, the objects also having no cause for their creation,
prove the subjective mind to be a falsity likewise.
57. The mind is as fickle as the flickering lightning, and deludes us by
the flashes of things of its own making.
58. The mind is nothing before knowledges of the self-existence One, nor
does it then deceive us with its false shows; and this world which is
the creation of the mind, disappears before the knowledge of the soul.
59. Men in vain wish to take the shell for silver, and believe the
negative world as a positive one, and is found to be nothing before the
light of reason.
60. The error of egoism is opposed to the verity of nirvána, and is the
cause of misery only to mankind; the ego is verily a falsity as mirage,
and a non-entity as vacuity itself.
61. The knowledge of the self or soul, removes the error of egoism; and
by knowing and being full with the knowledge of the soul, one is
incorporated with it, both internally as well as externally.
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