The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol 4 (of 4), Part 1 (of 2)Valmiki
Religion
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
79. The groups of stars are wandering about, like lustres of a thousand
lamps lighted in the sky; they seem to shed gems with their rays as they
roll, or scatter flowers from all sides on the heads of gods and aerial
beings.
80. Creations and destructions accompany her, as fleeting days and
nights, or as jewels of brilliant and black gems on her person. They are
as the two fortnights resembling her white and black wings on either
side.
81. The sun and moon are the two bright gems on her person, and the
clusters of stars form her necklaces of lesser gems; the clear firmament
is her white apparel, and the flashes of lightnings form the brocaded
fringes of her garment.
82. As she dances in her giddy dance of destruction, she huddles the
worlds under her feet as her anklets, raising thereby a jingling sound
as that of her trinkets.
83. In her warfare with the jarring elements, rolling on like waves of
the ocean, and darkening the daylight as by the waving swords of
warriors, she listens to the tumult of all the worlds and their peoples.
84. The gods Brahmá, Vishnu and Siva, together with the regents of sun
and moon and fire, and all other gods and demigods, that shine in their
respective offices; are all made to fly before like a flight of gnats,
and with the velocity of lightning.
85. Her body is a congeries of conflicting elements and contrary
principles, and creation and destruction, existence and non-existence,
happiness and misery, life and death, and all injunctions and
prohibitions (_i.e._ the mandatory and prohibitory laws, do all abide
conjointly and yet separately in her person).
86. The various states of production and existence, and continuance of
action and motion, and their cessation which appear to take place in her
body, as in those of all corporeal beings, together with the revolution
of the earth and all other worlds in empty air; are all but false
delusions of our minds, as there is nothing in reality except a
boundless vacuity.
87. Life and death, peace and trouble, joy and sorrow, war and truce,
anger and fear, envy and enmity, faith and distrust and all other
opposite feelings; are concomitants with this worldly life, and they
dwell together in the same person, as the various gems stored in a
chest.
88. The intellectual sphere of her body, teems with notions of
multifarious worlds; which appear as phantoms in the open air, or as
fallacies of vision to the dim sighted man.
89. Whether the world is quiescent in the intellect, or a passing
phenomenon of outward vision; it appears both as stable as well as
moving, like the reflexion of objects in a standing or shaking mirror.
90. All worldly objects are as fluctuating, as the changing shows in a
magic play; they forsake their forms and assume others as quickly, as
the fickle desires of whimsical boys are ever shifting from one object
to another.
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