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
13. Thinking itself to be thus transformed to a gross and material form,
as that of Virát the macrocosm (who combines the whole material universe
in himself); it views itself as bright and spotted, as the disk of the
moon with the black spot upon it.
14. It then finds in its person resembling the lunar disk, the sudden
union of the five senses of perception, appearing in him of themselves.
15. These five senses are then found to have the five organs of
sensation for their inlets, by which the soul perceives the sensation of
their respective objects.
16. Then the _Purusha_ or first male power known as Virát, manifests
himself in five other forms said to be the members of his person; and
these are the sun, the sides, water, air, and the land, which are the
objects of five senses said before. He then becomes of endless forms
according to the infinity of objects of his knowledge: (_i.e._ the
thoughts in this mind). He is thus manifested in his objective forms,
but is quite unknown to us in his subjective or causal form, which is
unchangeable and undecaying.
17. He sprang up at first from the supreme being, as its mental energy
or the mind; and was manifest in the form of the calm and clear
firmament, with the splendour of eternal delight.
18. He was not of the five elemental forms, but was the soul of the five
elements, he is called the _Virát Purusha_—the macrocosm of the world,
and the supreme lord of all. (He was the collective body of all
individual ones).
19. He rises spontaneously of himself, and then subsides in himself; he
expands his own essence all over the universe, and at last contracts the
whole in himself.
20. He rose in a moment with his power of volition, and with all his
desires in himself; he rises of his own will at first, and after lasting
long in himself, dissolves again in himself.
21. He is the selfsame one with the mind of God, and he is the great
body of the material world; and his body is called the _puryashtaka_ or
container of the eight elementary principles, as also the _átiváhika_ or
of the spiritual form.
22. He is as the subtile and gross air, manifest as the sky, but
invisible as the subtile ether; he is both within and as well as without
everything, and is yet nothing in himself.
23. His body consists of eight members, _viz_—the five senses, the mind,
the living principle and egoism, together with the different states of
their being and not being, _i.e._, of their visible and invisible form
(such as outward and inward organs of perception &c.).
24. He (in the form of Brahmá), sang at first the four vedas with his
four mouths; he determined the significations of words, and it was he
who established the rules of conduct, which are in vogue to this time.
25. The high and boundless heaven, is the crown of his head; and the
lower earth is the footstool of his feet; the unbounded sky is his
capacious belly, and the whole universe is the temple over his body.
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