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
13. The causeless and uncausing seed of the intellect, being moved by
desire, becomes cause of the minutiae of material bones, as the seed
becomes productive of its germs and sprouts.
14. All vegetable productions as the grass and all sorts of plants and
creepers, vegetate from within their particular seeds as their origin;
and these seed originate from the pulsation of the divine mind, which
is increate and without any for it. (The pulsation of the divine
mind is its creative will, which is the seed or source of creation).
15. There is no difference between the seed and its sprout, as there is
no distinction of the heat from fire; and as you find the identity of
the seed and its sprout, so must you know the identity of man with his
acts. (_i.e._ Actions make the man, and the man does his actions like
himself).
16. The divine Intellect exerts its power in the bosom of the earth, and
grows the sprouts of the unmoving vegetable creation as from its seed;
and these become great or small, straight or crooked as the waves of the
sea as it would have them to be.
17. What other power is there beside that of the intellect, to grow the
sturdy oaks and arbors from the soft clay and humid moisture, which
compose the bosom of the earth?
18. It is this Intellect that fills the seeds of living beings with the
vital fluid, as the sappy juice abiding in the inside of plants, gives
growth to the flowers and fruits on the outside.
19. If this all inhering intellect, were not almighty also at the same
time, say then what other power is there, that could produce the mighty
gods and demigods in air, and the huge mountains on earth.
20. The divine mind contains in it the seeds of all moving and unmoving
beings, which have their being from the movement of this intellectual
power, and from no other source whatever.
21. As there is no difference in the alternate production of the seed
and the germ or fruit from one another, so there is no difference in the
commutual causation of man and his acts and the _vice versa_. In this
manner also there is no shade of difference, betwixt the swelling waves
and the sinking waters of the sea. (Man is but a bubble of its own
blowing in the vast ocean of Eternity).
22. Fie to that silly and beastly being, who does not believe in the
reciprocality of man and his action or of the agent and the act, by the
law of _mutatis mutandis_ inculcated in the vedas.
23. The prurience that is inherent in one’s consciousness, is the
embryonic seed of his resuscitation to life; in the manner of the
germination of plants: it is therefore meet to render this seed abortive
by frying it in the fire of inappetency.
24. The doing of a thing with listlessness, and the performance of an
act whether good or bad without taking it to the mind, is what is called
lukewarmness by the learned.
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