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
3. The omnipotence of Brahma contains also the insensible (or gross)
matter in his intelligence; as the calm and clear water of the sea
contains the matter of the future froth and foam within itself.
4. As the froth is not produced in the water, without some cause or
other; so the creation never proceeds from the essence of Brahma,
without its particular cause also. (This cause is said to be Máyá).
5. But the uncaused and causeless Brahma, can have no cause whatever for
his creation of the world; nor is any thing at this world or other, ever
born or destroyed in himself. (No material substance is ever born or
lost in the spiritual essence of God).
6. The entire want of a cause (either material or formal), makes the
growth and formation of the world an utter impossibility, it is as
impossible as the growth of a forest or the sight of a sea in the mirage
of a desert as it appears to be.
7. The nature of Brahma is being the same as infinity and eternity, it
is tranquil and immutable at all times; and is not therefore liable to
entertain a thought or will of the creation at anytime. Thus there
being no temporary cause for such, the world itself must be identic with
Brahma himself.
8. Therefore the nature of Brahma is both as empty as the hollow vacuity
of air, as also as dense as the density of a rock; so it is the solidity
of Brahma that represents the solid cosmos, as his tenuity displays the
inane atmosphere.
9. Whether you can understand anything or nothing, regarding the
mysterious nature of the Deity, remain quite unconcerned about it; and
rest your soul in that Supreme spirit, wherein all intelligence and its
absence are both alike. (To him no great or small but are all alike).
10. The everlasting bliss of the uncreated God, has no cause for his
creation of the world, which cannot augment his bliss; therefore know
all that is and exists to the increate God himself, from the
improbability of his making a creation to no purpose whatsoever.
11. Of what use is it to reason with the ignorant, concerning the
production and destruction of creation (_i.e._ about the existence or
inexistence of the objective world); when they have not the Divine
Intellect in their view (as all in all or as both the subjective and
objective in itself).
12. Wherever there is the Supreme being, there is the same accompanied
with the worlds also (as it is impossible to have the idea of God,
without the association of the world); because the meaning of the word
world, conveys the sense of their variety.
13. The supreme Brahma is present in everything in all places, such as
in the woods and grass, in the habitable earth and in the waters
likewise. So the creatures of God teem in every part of creation
together with the all-creative power.
14. It is improper to ask, what is the nature and constitution of
Brahma; because there is no possibility of ascertaining the essence and
absence of the properties of that infinite and transcendental entity.
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