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
36. The stability or unstability, of the greatest or least of things,
makes no difference in any of them whatever; they are all alike the
radiating rays of the intellect, though they appear as extended bodies
to the ignorant.
37. Those who assign unlimitedness to the essence of consciousness, and
of limitation to that of insensibility; and maintain the permanence of
the one and the transience of the other, talk mere nonsense like the
babbling of boys.
38. They are the best and most venerable of men, who know the body to be
the product of and encompassed by the intellect. And they are the
meanest among mankind, who believe the intellect as the produce and
offspring of the body; (and these are Kanada and Nyáya philosophers of
gross materialism, who believe intelligence as a resultant of the
material body).
39. The intellect (personified as Hiranyagarbha or Brahmá the Divine
spirit), is distributed into the souls of all living beings; and the
infinite space of vacuity, is as a net work or curtain, which all
animal lives, flying within its ample expanse like bodies of gnats and
flies, and rising up and sinking below or moving all about, as the
shoals of fishes in the interminable ocean. (The Divine Intellect or
spirit, is the collection of all specialities).
40. As this universal soul, thinks of creating the various species; so
it conceives them within itself, as the seeds conceive the future plants
in themselves, and the same are developed afterward.
41. Whatever lives or living beings, it thinks of or conceives in
itself; the same spring forth quickly from it, and this truth is known
even to boys (from the repeated texts importing the Lord as the fountain
of all).
42. As the vapours fly in the air, and as the waters roll in the ocean;
and as they form curls and waves of various kinds, so the lives of
living beings, are continually floating in the vacuum of the Divine
Intellect.
43. As the vacuity of the Intellect, presents the sight of a city to a
man in his dream; so the world presents its variegated aspects since its
first creation, to the sight of the day dreaming man.
44. There were no co-ordinate causes of material bodies (as earth, water
&c.), at the first formation of the world; but it rose spontaneously of
itself as the empty sights appearing in our dream.
45. As in a city seen in dream, its houses and their apartments, come to
appear gradually to sight; so the dream becomes enlarged and expanded
and divided by degrees to our vision.
46. All this creation is but the empty void of the intellect, (or as
pictures drawn in empty air); there is no duality or variety in it, but
is one even plane of the intellect, like the open sky, without any spot
or place attached to it.
47. The moon-light of the Intellect, diffuses its coolness on all sides,
and gladdens the souls of all beings; it scatters the beams of
intellection all around, and casts its reflexions in the image of the
world.
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