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
2. The erroneous conception of limited vacuities, being produced from
the unlimited vacuum, has given rise to the mistaken belief of unreal
and individual souls, as proceeding from the one universal and undivided
soul of God.
3. The divine intellect exists in the form of air in air, which it takes
for its body; it is manifest throughout the aerial sphere and therefore
I am neither the _ego_ nor the _non-ego_ either. (Man is the _ego_ in
his intellectual part, and the _non-ego_ in his material frame).
4. The unity of the subtile intellect is of such a nature, that it
contains the gravity of the immense world in it (_i.e._ in its thought);
in the same manner as a ponderous mountain is contained in an atom (or
as it is composed of atomic particles). The conscious intellect is of
the form of air (empty and all pervading in its nature). (This is
another instance of the vacuous essence of God, according to the
vacuistic theory of Vasishtha).
5. The intellect which is rarer than subtile air, thinks in itself the
gross nature of unintellectual matter; which exhibits itself in the form
of the world. (The dull external world, is a counter part of the internal
conception of the mind).
6. It is well known to the spiritualist, that the egoism of ourselves
and the materialism of the world, are but dilations of the intellect; as
the currents and curlings of streams in eddies are but dilations of
water. (This process of the Divine spirit is called its _vivarta rúpa_).
7. When this process of the intellect is at a stop, the whole course of
nature is at a stand still, like the liquid water of the lake without
its undulation; or like the quiet sphere of the sky, without the stir or
agitation of winds in it. (It means to say that, as the motion of the
spirit causes the action of the world, so its cessation _nivarta-rúpa_,
put an end to the course of nature).
8. Thus there is no other cause of any physical action, in anything in
any part or period of the world; except what is derived from the
agitation of the Intellect, without which this whole is a shapeless void
and _nil_.
9. It is the action of the intellect, that makes the world to appear to
us at all times and places; whether in the sky, water or land, as also
when we wake, sleep or dream (and this action of the mind being put to a
stop in death deep sleep, the world ceases to exist both in the mind and
to our external senses also).
10. The action and inaction of the intellect, is imperceptible to our
understanding, owing to the extreme tenuity of the mind, which is more
transparent than the clear sky.
11. The knowing soul that is unified or settled as one with the Supreme
spirit, is unconscious of its pleasure or pain and the sense of its
egoism; and being melted down into the divine essence, it resides as the
fluidity of the psychic fluid.
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