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
28. Some parts were under the control of the vedas, and others were
ungoverned by regulations of sástras; some parts were full of insects
and worms, and others were peopled by gods and other living beings.
29. In some parts the burning fires of daily oblations were seen to
rise, and at others the people were observant of the traditional usages
of their respective tribes only (without knowing their reasons).
30. Some parts were filled with water, and others were the regions of
storms; some bodies were fixed in the remote sky, and others were roving
and revolving in it continually.
31. The growing trees were blossoming in some parts, and others were
fructifying and ripening at others. There were the grazing animals
moving pronely in some place, and others were teeming with living
beings.
32. The Lord alone is the whole creation, and He only is the totality of
mankind; He is the whole multitude of demons, and He too is the whole
shoal of worms every where.
33. He is not afar from anything, but is present in every atom that is
contained in his bosom. All things are growing and grown up in the cell
of vacuity, like the coatings of the plantain tree.
34. Many things are growing unseen and unknown to each other, and never
thought of together, such are the dreams of soldiers which are unseen by
others.
35. There are endless varieties of creations, in the unbounded womb of
vacuum, all of different natures and manners; and there are no two
things of the same character and feature.
36. All men are of different sástras, faiths and persuasions from one
another, and these are of endless varieties; they are as different in
their habits and customs, as they are separated from each other in their
habitations and localities.
37. So there are worlds above worlds, and the spheres of the spirits
over one another; so there are a great many big elemental bodies, like
the hills and mountains that come to our sight.
38. It will be impossible for understandings like yours, to comprehend
the incoherent (unusual) things, which are spoken by men like ourselves
(_i.e._ inspired sages, who talk of wonders beyond the common
comprehension).
39. We must derive the atoms of spiritual light, which proceeds from the
sphere of vacuum; as we feel the particles of mental light which issues
from the orb of sun of our intellect. (Here the author speaks of the
lights of the sun, intellect and spirit).
40. Some are born to remain just as they are, and become of no use to
any one at all; and others become some what like themselves as the
leaves of forest trees.
41. Some are equal to others, and many that are unlike to them; for
sometime as alike to one another, and at others they differ in their
shapes and nature (it is difficult to make out the meaning of these
passages, not given in the gloss).
42. Hence there are various results of the great tree of spirituality,
among which some are of the same kinds and others, of different sorts.
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