The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol 4 (of 4), Part 1 (of 2) — John Shaqi
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
9. The divine intellect, like the Bel fruit, forms within itself its
pith and seeds (of future worlds), which lie hid in it, and never burst
out of its bosom. (So all things are contained in divine mind).
10. As a thing contained in its container, is not separate from the
containing receptacle, so all things that lie in the womb of space, are
included in the infinite space of the universal soul (or the divine
mind) which encompasses the endless vacuity in it.
11. And as the property of fluidity, is never distinct from the nature
of liquids; so the thoughts (of all created things), are never apart
from the thinking principle of the Divine mind. (The words _Chittam_ and
_Chittwam_, and their meanings of the thought and mind, appertain to
their common root the _chit_ or intellect with which they are alike in
sound and sense).
12. Again as fluidity is the inseparable property of water, and light is
that of fire; so the thoughts and thinking, inhere intrinsically
in the nature of the Divine Intellect, and not as its separable
qualities.
13. Intellection is the action of the intellect, and its privation gives
rise to the chimeras of error in the mind; there is no other cause of
error, nor does it last unless it rises in absence of reason.
14. Intellection is the action of the intellect, as fluctuation is that
of the wind; and it is by means of their respective actions, that we
have our perceptions of them. But when the soul ceases from action, then
both of these (_viz_: our intellection and perceptions) are at an utter
stop within and without us. (_i.e._ The soul is the prime mover of our
inward and outward senses).
15. The body is the field and scope of our actions, and our egoism
spreads itself over the world; but our insensibility and want of egoism,
tend to put away the world from us as want of force puts down the
breeze.
16. Insensibility of the body and mind, renders the intelligent soul, as
dull as a stone; therefore root out the world from thy mind, as a boar
uproots a plant with its tusk; (by means of your insensibility of it, and
the full sense of God alone in thee).
17. In this way only, O Ráma, you can get rid of the seed vessel of
action in your mind; and there is no other means of enjoying the lasting
peace of your soul besides this.
18. After the germinating seed of action is removed from the mind, the
wise man loses the sight of all temporal objects, in his full view of
the holy light of God.
19. The holy saints never seek to have, nor dare to avoid or leave any
employment of their own choice or will; (but they do whatever comes in
their way, knowing it as the will of God and must be done). They are
therefore said to be of truly saintly souls and minds, who are strangers
to the preference or rejection of anything (lit., to the acceptance or
avoidance of a thing).
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