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
8. I then found the clear and thick blaze of my spiritual light, to
ravish my outward sight; as it had enrapt my inward vision.
9. As a man sees in his dream a huge stone in his house, so I beheld the
vast vacuum as a crystaline globe, situate in the clear atmosphere of
the intellect. (The stone is the mundane egg or sphere of the universe).
10. A dreaming man, may think himself as another person; but after he is
awakened from his sleep, he comes to know himself. (So we dream
ourselves as this and that, but upon waking to reason, we find ourselves
as none of these, but the pure spirit).
11. Those who dream themselves headless beings in their sleep, and
remain so in this world; they can be of no good or use to themselves,
though they have a little knowledge afterwards.
12. The man that is drowned in utter ignorance, comes to his right
understanding in course of time; and comes to know at the end, that
there is no real entity, except the essence of God.
13. This when I beheld the solid and transparent light, which appeared
as crystal stone lying in the vacuity of Brahma; I could observe no
material thing as the earth and water, or aught whatever in connection
with it.
14. The pure and spiritual form, in which all things were presented at
their first creation; they bear the same forms still, in our ideas of
them.
15. All these bodies of created beings, are but forms of Brahma; being
considered in their primordial and spiritual and natural natures; and it
is the mind which gives them the imaginary shapes of materiality, in its
fabricated dominion of the visible world.
16. It is the spiritual form, which is the true essence of all things;
and all that is visible to us or perceptible to the senses, is mere
fabrication of the originally inventive mind.
17. The prime creation was in the abstract, or an abstract idea of it,
and imperceptible to the senses (because the original prototype of the
world, was co-eternal with the divine mind, and existent with it from
before the formation of the perceptive senses of beings; but it was
perceptible to the mind in the form of the noumenal, which was converted
to the concrete and phenomenal by the ignorant).
18. The yogi like the knowing minds, sees all things in the abstract and
in a general view; but the ignorant that are deprived of the power of
abstraction and generalization, fall into the errors of concrete
particulars and deceptive sensibles.
19. All sensation is but a temporary perception, and presents a wrong
impression in the mind; know all sensible perceptions to be false and
deluding, but their concepts in the mind of yogi are the true realities.
(Falsity of perception and reality of noumena according to Berkeley).
20. O, the wonder of taking the sensibles for the invisible verities!
when it is ascertained that the concepts, which are beyond the senses,
are the true realities that come under our cognizance.
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