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
35. By thinking constantly on the forms of things, as this is a cow and
that is a horse &c., as also of their being bounded by space and time;
it became conversant with the objects of different senses.
36. The same intellectual particle, saw likewise the different parts of
its body; which it termed its hands, feet &c., as its outward members;
and the heart &c., as the inner members of the body.
37. In this manner is formed the body of Brahmá, as also those of Vishnu
and the Rudras and other Gods; and so also the forms of men and worms
are produced from their conception of the same.
38. But in fact there is nothing, that is really made or formed; for all
things are now, as they have been ever before. All this is the original
vacuum, and primeval intelligence; and all forms are the false
formations of fancy.
39. Virát is the seed producing the plants of the three worlds, which
are productive of many more, as one root produces many bulbs under it.
Belief in the creation, puts a bolt to the door of salvation; and the
appearance of the world, is as that of a light and fleeting cloud
without any rain.
40. This Virát is the first male, rising unseen of his own will. He is
the cause of all actions and acts.
41. He has no material body, no bone or flesh, nor is he capable of
being grasped under the fist of anybody.
42. He is as quiet and silent, as the roaring sea and cloud, and the
loud roar of lions and elephants, and the din of battle, is unheard by
the sleeping man.
43. He remains neither as a reality, nor entirely as an unreality; but
like the notion of a waking man, of a warrior seen to be fighting in his
dream. (_i.e._ As the faint idea of an object seen in dream).
44. Although his huge body stretches to millions of miles, yet it is
contained in an atom with all the worlds that lie hid in every pore of
his body. (Meaning—the cosmos contained in a grain of the brain).
45. Though thousands of worlds and millions of mountains compose the
great body of the unborn Virát, yet they are not enough to fill it
altogether, as a large quantity of grain, is not sufficient to fill a
winnowing basket.
46. Though myriads of worlds are stretched in his body, yet they are but
an atom in comparison with its infinity; and the Virát is represented to
contain all in his body, yet it occupies no space or place, but
resembles a baseless mountain in a dream.
47. He is called the self-born and Virát also, and though he is said to
be the body and soul of the world, yet he is quite a void himself.
48. He is also named as Rudra and Sanatana, and Indra and Upendro also;
he is likewise the wind, the cloud and the mountain in his person.
49. The minute particle of the Intellect, like a small spark of fire,
inflates and spreads itself at first; and then by thinking its
greatness, it takes the form of _chitta_ or the thinking mind, which
with its self-consciousness becomes the vast universe.
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