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
7. The appearance or disappearance of an event or accident proceeds from
causes quite unknown to us, and these afterwards become causes of the
effects produced by them.
8. Who can tell what is the cause of the absence of horn in hares, and
the appearance of water in the mirage, which cannot be found out or seen
at the sight of those objects.
9. Those who explore in the causality of the want of horns in hares, may
well expect to embrace the necks of the sons and grandsons of a barren
woman.
10. The cause of the appearance of the unreal phenomena of the world to
our sight, is no other than our want of right sight (_i.e._ our
ignorance), which presents these phantoms to our view; and which
disappear at a glance of our acute vision (of reason).
11. The living (or human) soul appears as the Supreme spirit, when it is
viewed upon by the sight of our blended intellect; but no sooner does
the light of Divine intellect dawn in our minds, than the living or
animal soul dwindles into nothing.
12. The insensible and unconscious Supreme soul, becomes awakened to the
state of the living soul; just as the potential mango of winter, becomes
the positive mango fruit in the genial spring.
13. The intellect being awakened, becomes the living soul; which in its
long course of its living, becomes worn out with age and toil, and
passes into many births in many kinds of beings (animal, vegetable as
well as insensible objects).
14. Wise men that are possessed of their intellectual sight, look
internally within themselves in the recesses of their hearts and minds;
without looking at the lookables without, or thinking of anything or
many efforts whatever; but move on with the even course of their
destiny, as the water flows on its course to the ocean of eternity.
15. They who have come to the light of their transcendent vision, fix
their sight to brighter views beyond the sphere of visibles; and discern
the invisible exposed to their view.
16. They who have come to the vision of transcendent light (the glory of
God), have their slow and silent motion like that of a hidden water
course; owing to their heedlessness of everything in this world.
17. They who are regardless of the visibles and thoughtless of the
affairs of the world, are like those that disentangled from their
snares; and they are truly wise, who meddle with their business as
freely, as the free airs of heaven gently play with and move the leaves
of trees.
18. They who have come to sight of the transcendent light, athwart the
dizzy scenes of mortal life; are not constrained to the course of this
world, as seafarers are not to be pent up in shallow and narrow pools
and streams. (Sailors are glad to be in the wide ocean, than to ply in
the waters of inland creeks).
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