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
67. Her wide open nostrils constantly breathe out hoarse currents of her
breath, which give rise to the winds of air, and their loud sufflations
and whistlings.
68. Her hundred fold arms revolving in all the four directions, give the
sky the appearance of a forest; _filled_ with the tall heads of trees
and their branches, shaken by a furious tornado in the air.
69. At last my steady eye-sight grew tired, with viewing the varieties
of productions from her body; and their motions and movements,
resembling the manners of an army in warfare.
70. Mountains were seen to be rolling as by an engine, and the cities of
the celestials falling downward; and all these appearances were observed
to take place in the mirror of her person.
71. The Meru mountains were torn and borne away as branches of trees,
and the Malayas were tossed about as flying leaves; the Himálayas fell
down as dewdrops, and all earthly things are scattered as straws.
72. The hills and rocks fled away, and the Vindhyas flew as aerials in
the air; the woods rolled in the whirlpools, and the stars floated in
the sea of heaven, as swans and geese in the lakes below.
73. Islands floated as straws in the ocean of her body, and the seas
were worn as circlet on it; the abodes of the gods were like
lotus-flowers, blooming in the large lake of her person.
74. As we see the images of cities in our dream, and in the darkness of
night, as clearly we behold them in the fair sky light; so I beheld all
things in her dark body, as vividly as they shone in broad sunlight.
75. All things though immovable, as the mountains and seas and arbours;
appear to be moving in and dancing about in her person.
76. So the wandering worlds are dancing about in the great circle of her
spacious body, as if they were mere straws in the vast ocean of
creation. Thus the sea rolls on the mountain, and the high hills pierces
the hollow of the heaven above. This heaven also with its sun and moon,
are turning below the earth; and the earth with all its islands and
mountains, cities, forests and flowery gardens; is dancing in heaven
round about the sun. (Describing the harmonious dance of the planetary
spheres in empty air).
77. The mountains are wandering (with the earth), amidst the surrounding
sky; and the sea passes beyond the horizon (with the rotation of the
earth); and so the cities and all human habitations, traverse through
other skies; and so also the rivers and lakes pass through other
regions, as objects reflecting themselves in different mirrors, and as
swiftly as the leaf of a tree torn by a tempest, is hurled on and borne
afar to distant parts.
78. Fishes skim in the desert air (or etherial desert), as they swim in
the watery plain; and cities are situated in empty air, as firmly as
they are fixed on solid earth. The waters are raised to heaven by the
clouds, which are again driven back by the winds, to pour their waters
on mountain tops.
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