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
19. There is but one unintelligible intelligence, a purely unborn and
imperishable being, that appears now before us in the shape of this
creation, as it existed with its everlasting ideas of infinite worlds,
before this creation began.
20. There is no creation here, nor these orbs of earth and others; it is
all calm and quiet with but One Brahma seated in his immensity.
21. This Brahma is omnipotent and as He manifests himself in any manner,
He instantly becomes as such without forsaking his purely transparent
form.
22. As our intellect shows itself, in the form of visionary cities in
our dream; so doth the divine intellect exhibit itself, in the forms of
all these worlds, at the commencement of their creation.
23. It is in the transparent and transcendent vacuum of the Intellect,
that the vacuous intellect is situated; and the creation is the display
of its own nature, by an act of its thought in itself. (There is a large
note explanatory of this passage).
24. The whole creation consists in the clear vacuity of the intellect,
and is of the nature of the spirit situated in the spirit of God. (The
world exists in its spiritual form in the ample space of the divine
spirit).
25. The whole creation being but the diffusion of the selfsame spiritual
essence of God, there is no possibility of the existence of a material
world or ignorance or egoism, in the creation and pervasivefulness of
the Supreme spirit.
26. Everything have I told you all about the desinence of your egoism,
and one knowing the unreality of his egoisticism, gets rid of his false
belief, as a boy is freed from his fear of a ghost.
27. In this manner, no sooner was I fully convinced of the futility of
egoism, than I lost the sense of my personality; and though I retained
fully the consciousness of myself, yet I got freed from my selfishness,
as a light autumnal cloud by disloading its watery burden.
28. As our knowledge of the inefficacy of a flaming fire in painting,
removes the fear of our being burnt by it; so our connection of our
fallacies of egoism and creation, serves to efface the impressions of
the subjective and objective from our minds.
29. Thus when I was delivered from my egoism, and set to the
tranquility of my passions; I then found myself seated in an
unatmospheric firmament (which was free from cloud and rain); and in an
uncreated creation (_i.e._ in the everlasting vacuity or eternal
sunshine of heaven).
30. I am none of egoism, nor is it anything to me; having got rid of it,
I have become one with clear intellectual vacuum.
31. In this respect, all intelligent men are of the same opinion with
myself; as it is well known to them that our notion of egoism is as
false, as the fallacy of fire represented in a painting.
32. Being certain of the unreality of yourself and of others, and of the
nihility of everything beside; conduct yourself in all your dealings
with indifference, and remain as mute as a stone.
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