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
14. There are numberless worlds of creations, in earth, water and air
and in everything under the sky, as if they are compressed or carved in
the body of a huge block of stone.
15. What you call the world is a mere fallacy, and resembles your vision
of a fairy city in dream; it is a false name applied to an object,
existing nowhere beyond the intellect (and in the imagination of the
mind).
16. They who have come to know the world, as no other than an airy
vision of the mind, are verily called as wise men, and not liable to
fall into error.
17. There others who by their application to and practice of yoga
contemplation, come to attain their desired object, as this lady has
succeeded to gain your company (for her edification).
18. Thus doth the illusory power of the intellect, display these
material worlds before us; and thus doth the everlasting Divine
omnipotence manifest itself (in all these various forms).
19. There is no action nor any creation, that is ever produced from
anything or ever reduced to nothing; but all things and actions are the
spontaneous growth of the intellect only; together with our ideas of
space and time.
20. Know the ideas of time and space, of substance and action, as well
as of the minds and its faculties, are the lasting figures and marks on
the stone of the intellect, and are ever salient in it, without their
setting or being shaded at anytime.
21. This intellect is the very stone (we have been talking of), and is
either at rest or rolling on as roller or wheel; the worlds appertain to
it as its appurtenances, and accompany it as motion doth the wind.
22. The soul being replete with its full knowledge of all things, is
considered as the solid world itself; and though it is infinite in time
and space, yet it is thought as limited, owing to its appearance in the
form of the bounded and embodied mind.
23. The unbounded intellect appears as bounded, by its limited
knowledge; and although it is formless, yet it appears in the form of
the mind, representing the worlds in it.
24. As the mind views itself in the form of aerial city in its dream, so
doth it find itself in the form of this stone, with the worlds marked
upon it in the daytime. (The world like the dream, is a transformation
or representation of the mind itself).
25. There is no rolling of the orbs in this world, nor the running of
streams herein, there is no object subsisting in reality any where; but
they are all mere representations of the mind in empty air.
26. As there are no _kolpa_ and great _kalpa_ ages in eternity, nor the
substantiality of anything in the vacuity of our consciousness; and as
there is no difference of the waves and bubbles from the waters of the
sea (So there is no difference of the empty thoughts from the vacuous
mind; whence they take their rise).
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