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
33. We find the moving and unmoving beings on earth, and creatures
unnumbered all around us; but what do they all prove to be at last, than
the representations of the eternal ideas in the Divine Intellect.
34. As we can have no idea of a pot, without that of the clay which it
is made of; so we can have no conception of the blocks of mould and
stone, unless they were represented to our minds, from their prints in
Divine Intellect.
35. All these various things, which appear unto us both in our waking as
well as dreaming states; are no other than the ideas of blocks, which
are represented in our dreams from their archetypes in the Intellect.
36. Now say O Intelligent Ráma, what else must this Intellect be, than
that infinite and vacuous essence which acts in us, both in our dreaming
and waking states.
37. Know this Intellect to be the great Brahmá, who is everything in the
world, as if it were in the divided forms of his essence; and who is yet
of the figure of the whole world, as if he were the undivided whole
himself. (_i.e._ He is all and everything collectively and
individually).
38. As the earthen pot is not conceivable, without its formal substance
of the earth; so the intellectual Brahmá is inconceivable, without his
essence of the Intellect.
39. Again as a stone-made jar is beyond our conception, save by the idea
of its stony substance; so the spiritual God is beyond our
comprehension, besides our idea of the spirit.
40. As the water is a liquid substance, which cannot be conceived
without its fluidity; so is Brahmá conceived as composed of his _chit_
or Intellect only, without which we can have no conception of him.
41. So also we have the conception of fire by means of its heat, without
which we have no concept of it; such too is our idea of God that he is
the Intellect, and beside this we can form no idea of him.
42. We know the wind by its oscillation only, and by no other means
whatsoever; so is God thought as the Intellect or Intelligence itself;
beside which we can have no notion of him.
43. There is nothing, that can be conceived without its property; as we
can never conceive vacuum to be without its vacuity, nor have any
conception of the earth without its solidity.
44. All things are composed of the vacuous Intellect, as the pot or
painting appearing in the mind, is composed of the essence of the
intellect only; and so the hills &c., appearing in dream, are
representation of the Intellect alone. (All the material world is
composed of matter, so is the intellectual world made of intellect
only).
45. As we are conscious of the aerial sights of the hills and towns,
presented to our minds in the dream; so we know all things in our
conscious in our waking state also; so there is a quiet calm vacuity
only both in our sleep and waking, wherein our intellect alone is ever
busy to show itself in endless shapes before us.
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