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
39. As the productions of a distant country, become of use when they are
presented before us; so the objects of our dreams and thoughts, are
equally true and useful when they are present in view; so also every
idea of a definite shape and signification, is a certain reality (as
that of the goddess Kálí).
40. As an object or its action passing under the sight of any one, is
believed to be true by its observer; so whatever thought passes in his
mind, is thought to be true by him. But nothing that is seen or thought
of by another, is ever known to or taken into belief by any one else, or
accounted as true to him.
41. It is therefore in the power of the Divine Intellect, that the
embryo of the creation is contained for ever; and the whole universe is
ever existent in the divine soul, it is wholly unknown to others.
42. All that is past, present, and ever to be in future, together with
all the desires and thoughts of others; are for ever really existent in
the divine spirit, else it would not be the universal soul. (The meaning
of the universal soul is the contained of all and not that it is contained
in them).
43. There are the adepts only in yoga practice, who acquire the power of
prying into the hearts and minds of others; just as others come to see
different countries, by passing over the barriers of hills and dales.
(As the divine soul is the knower of the hearts of others, so is the
pure soul of the holy divine also).
44. As the dream of a man fallen into fast sleep, is not disturbed by
the shaking of his bedstead or sleeping couch; so the fixed thought of
any body, are never lost by his removing from place to place (or by his
departure from this life to the next, or by his transmigration from one
into another).
45. So the movements of the dancing body of Káli (the creative energy of
God) cause no fluctuation in the world which is contained within it;
just as the shaking of a mirror, makes no alternation in the reflection
which is cast upon it.
46. The great bustle and commotion of the world though seeming as real
to all appearance, yet it being but a mere delusion in sober reality, it
were as well whether it moveth all or not all (as it were the same
whether we are hurried or kept sedate in a dream).
47. When is the dreaming scene or the city seen in our dream, said to be
a true one, and when is it pronounced as a falseone; and when is it
said to be existent and when dilapidated? (supply how for when to give
it some sense).
48. Know the phenomenal world that is exposed before you, to be but mere
illusion; and it is your sheer fallacy, to view the unreal visibles as
sure realities.
49. Know your conception of the reality of the three worlds to be
equally false, as the aerial castle of your imagination or the air drawn
city of your fond desire; it is as the vision in your dream, or any
conception of your error.
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