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
91. It is the combination of causal powers, which cause the production
of bodies; and it is their separation which effects their dissolution;
as it is the accumulation of grains, which makes a granary, and their
abstraction which tends to its disappearance.
92. The Goddess now appears in one form, and then in another; she
becomes now as small as the thumb finger, and in a moment fills the sky
(with the bigness of her body).
93. That goddess is all in all, she is changed through every thing in
world, and is the cosmos itself and the power of the intellect also;
she fills the whole concavity of the sky with her form of pure vacuity.
94. She is the intellect, which embraces all, whatever is contained in
the three worlds and in all the three times (of the past, present, and
future). It is she that expands the worlds which are contained in her,
as a painter draws out the figures which are pictured in the receptacle
of his mind.
95. She is the all comprehensive and plastic nature or form of all
things; and being one with the intellectual spirit, she is equally as
calm and quiet as the other. Being thus uniform in her nature, she is
varied to endless forms in the twinkling of her eye.
96. All these visibles appear in her, as marks of lotuses and carved
figures are seen in a hollow stone (or in the perforated sáligram stones
of gunduk). Her body is the hollow sphere of heaven, and her mind is
full of all forms, appearing as waves in the depth of sea, or as the
sights of things in the bosom of a crystal stone (as reflected in it by
the Divine Intellect).
97. The very furious goddess Bhairaví—the consort of the dread god
Bhairava—the lord of destruction, was thus dancing about with her fierce
forms filling the whole firmament.
98. On one side the earth was burning with the fire, issuing from the
eye on the fore-head of all destroying Rudra; and on the other was his
consort Rudraní, dancing like a forest blown away by a hurricane.
99. She was armed more over with many other weapons, (beside those that
are mentioned before); such as a spade, a mortar and pestle, a mallet, a
mace &c.; which adorned her body as a garland of flowers.
100. In this manner, she danced and scattered the flowers of her
garlands on all sides; in her acts of destructions and recreation (as
preliminaries on one another).
101. She hailed the god Bhairava—the regent of the skies, who joined her
in dancing with his form as big and high as hers.
102. May the god Bhairava, with his associate Goddess of _Kálarátri_ or
chaotic night, preserve you all in their act of heroic dance, with the
beating of high sounding drums, and the blowing of their buffalo horn,
as they drink their bowls of blood and are adorned with wreaths of
flowers, hanging down from their heads to the breasts.
CHAPTER LXXXII.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PERSON OF THE GOD SIVA.
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