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
43. Some of these are of short duration, and others endure for longer
periods; there are some of temporary existence, and others endure for
ever.
44. Some have no determinate time (for want of the sun and moon), to
regulate its course; and others are spontaneous in their growth and
continuance.
45. The different regions of the sky, which lie in the concavity of
boundless vacuum, are in existence from unknown periods of time, and in
a state beyond the reach of our knowledge.
46. These regions of the sky, this sun and these seas and mountains,
which are seen to rise by hundreds to our sights, are the wonderful
display of our Intellect in the sky, like the chain of dreams in our
sleep.
47. It is from our erroneous notions, and the false idea of a creative
cause, that we take the unreal earth and all other appearances as they
are really existent ones.
48. Like the appearance of water in the mirage, and the sight of two
moons in the sky; do these unreal phenomena present themselves to our
view, although they are altogether false.
49. It is the imaginative power of the Intellect, which create these
images as clouds in the empty air; they are raised high by the wind of
our desire, and roll about with our exertions and pursuits.
50. We see the gods, demigods and men, flying about like flies and gnats
about a fig tree; and its luscious fruits are seen to hang about it, and
shake with the winds of heaven.
51. It is only from the naturally creative imagination of the Intellect,
likening the sportive disposition of boys, that the toys of fairy shapes
are shown in the empty air.
52. The false impressions of I, thou, he and this, are as firmly affixed
in the mind, as the clay dolls of boys are hardened in the sunlight and
heat.
53. It is the playful and ever active destiny, that works all these
changes in nature; as the genial vernal season, fructifies the forest
with its moisture.
54. Those that are called the great causes of creation, are no causes of
it; nor are those that are said to be created, created all, but all is a
perfect void. They have sprung of themselves in the vacuity of the
Intellect.
55. They all exist in their intellectual form, though they appear to be
manifest as otherwise; the perceptibles are all imperceptible, and the
existent is altogether inexistent.
56. The fourteen worlds, and the eleven kinds of created beings; are all
the same in the inner intellect, as they appear to the outward sight.
57. The heaven and earth, and the infernal regions, and the whole host
of our friends and foes, are all nullities in their true sense though
they seem to be very busy in appearance.
58. All things are as inelastic fluid, as the fluidity of the sea
waters; they are as fragile as the waves of the sea in their inside,
though they appear as solid substances on the outside.
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