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
9. His hands stretch to all sides, and his feet reach to the ends of the
worlds; his face and eyes are on all sides, and his head pierces the
spheres; his ears are set in all places, and he endures by encompassing
all things every where.
10. He is devoid of all the organs of sense, and yet possest of the
powers of all senses in himself; he is the support of all, and being
destitute of qualities, is the source and receptacle of all quality.
(The qualities of finite bodies are of a finite nature, but the infinite
are infinite, eternal and immutable).
11. Unmoved and unmoving by himself, he is moving in and out of all
things, as well as moveth them all both internally and externally (that
is to say, He is the moving force of dull matter). He is unknowable
owing to his minuteness, and appears to be at a distance, though he is
so near us.
12. He is as the one sun and moon in the whole universe, and the same
land in all the earth; He is the one universal ocean on the globe, and
one Meru Mountain (of the sun’s path) all about.
13. He is the pith and gravity of all objects, and he is the one vacuum
every where; he is the wide world and the great cosmos, that is common
to all.
14. He is the liberated soul of all, and the primary intellect in every
place; he is every object everywhere, and beside all things in all
places.
15. He is in all pots and huts, in all trees and their coatings; he
moves the carts and carriages, and enlivens alike all men and other
animals likewise.
16. He is in all the various customs and manners of men, and in all the
many modes of their thinking; he resides equally in the parts of an
atom, as also in the stupendous frame of the triple world.
17. He resides as pungency in the heart of pepper, as vacuity in the
sky; and in his intellectual soul the three worlds, whether they are
real entities or mere unrealities.
18. Indra beheld the lord in this manner, and then being liberated from
his animal state by the help of his pure understanding; he remained all
along in the same state of his meditation as before.
19. The magnanimous god sees in his revery, all things united in his
meditative mind; and beheld this creation in the same light as it
appears to us (as a real entity).
20. He then wandered in his mind all over this creation, and believing
himself as the lord of all he saw in it, became the very god Indra; and
reigned over the three worlds and their manifold pageantries.
21. Know, O chief of the race of vidyádharas, that the same Indra who
was descended of the family of Indras, has been still holding his reign
as the lord of gods to this day.
22. He then perceived in his mind, by virtue of his former habit of
thinking, the seed of his remembrance sprouting forth with the lotus
stalk, wherein he thought to have lain before.
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