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
26. The Intellect or understanding, resembling a vacuous substance, is
as unchangeable in its nature as that of vacuity and eternity; and the
objects which present their ideas in the soul, are as dreams which
appear in the mind, and are nothing in reality.
27. The gross nature of external objects, bear no relation with the pure
internal intellect; nor can their impurity touch or pollute the purity
of the soul; therefore the intellect is not subject to the mutability of
external nature.
28. The understanding never acquires the mutable state, of the objects
it dwells upon (as the mind does); it remains always in its immutable
nature, and is never otherwise in any state or condition.
29. The yogi having attained to his extreme purity of his understanding,
in the seventh or the highest degree of his perfection; becomes
identified with intelligence, and of the meaning of its presence or
absence.
30. The minds of the passing or ordinary people, are impressed with idea
of their materiality by reason of their understanding themselves as
material bodies.
31. They falsely take their fleeting minds, which are as pure as the
clear firmament for a material object; in the same manner as the players
in a drama, take upon themselves the false guise of Pisáchas demons.
(Misrepresenting the fair as foul).
32. All error is corrected by the habit of an unerring wisdom, as the
madness of a man is cured by his thinking himself as no mad man. (That
is, the constant habit of your thinking yourself as so and so, is what
will make you really appear as such).
33. The knowledge of one’s erroneousness makes him get out of his error,
as the error of dreaming is lost, upon one’s coming to the knowledge,
that all he beheld was but a mere dream.
34. It is the extenuation of our desires, that lessens our attachment to
the world (and the vice versa); the desire is a great demon, which must
be destroyed by the wise man.
35. As the madness of men, is increased by their habitual ravings; so it
is by their constant practice of sobriety, that the giddy insanity of
man comes to be abated.
36. As the passing human body, is taken in its corporeal sense in
thought; so it is taken in a spiritual sense also by the learned, by
virtue of its understanding or intellectual powers or faculties.
37. The passing or subtile body, having taken the form of the living
soul; is capable of being converted into the state of Brahma; by the
intense culture of its understanding. (But it is argued and objected
that).
38. If anything is produced according to its substance, and if any body
thinks himself according his own understanding; how is it then possible
for a material being, to take itself in a spiritual sense.
39. Logomachy rather increases the doubts, but following one’s advice,
the error is removed off; as devil is removed off by chaunting the
mantras only, rather than knowing the meaning of them.
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