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
11. The unholy souls that view the creation, appearing before them like
the dreams of sleeping men; are called sleeping souls, which behold the
world rising before them, like the waving waters in a mirage.
12. Those who consider the unreality (of the world) as a reality, we
know not what to speak of them, than with regard to the offspring of
barren women. (_i.e._ the impossibility of the existence of either of
them).
13. The souls of those that have known the true God, are as full as the
ocean with heavenly delight; because they do not look upon the visible
objects, nor do the visible ever fall under sight or notice.
14. They remain as calm as the still air, and as sedate as the unshaking
flame of a lamp; and they continue to be quite at ease both <as> they are
employed or unemployed in action.
15. As a minute atom makes a mountain, so the atomic heart becomes full
when it is employed in business; and yet the cold-heartedness of the
wise seer, continues the same as ever before. (_i.e._ The mind of the
wise man, is not ruffled by the bustle of business).
16. The wish makes the man, though it is not seen by anyone; it is the
cause of the world (worldly affairs), though it is not perceived by any
body. (The wish being master to the thought—the master of action).
17. What is done by oversight or in ignorance, is undone or foiled by
sight or knowledge of it; as for instance the thefts and other wicked
acts, which are carried on in the darkness, disappear from sight before
the blaze of daylight.
18. All beings composed of the fleshy body and the five elemental
substances, are altogether unreal as the gross productions of error
only; and so are the understanding, mind, egoism and other mental
faculties, of the same nature and not otherwise.
19. Leaving aside both the elemental and mental parts and properties of
your body, you attain to the purely intellectual state of your soul,
which is called to be your liberation.
20. Attachment to the intellect and adherence to the intellectual
thoughts, being once secured there will be end to the view of visibles,
and there will be no more any appearance of fancy in the mind, nor any
desire or craving rising in the heart.
21. But who has fallen into the error of taking the visibles for true,
his sight of the unreal prevents his coming to the view of the true
reality; and he finds at the end, that the visible world is but a
mirage, and is never faithful to any body at any place.
22. So he finds the falsity of the world, whose soul has risen to its
enlightenment within himself; but who ever happens to have the
remembrance of the world in him, he comes to fall to the error of its
reality again.
23. Therefore avoid your reliance in all worldly objects, and rely only
on one who is simply as mere vacuum; and mind that is good you not
to remember the world any more, and that your forgetfulness of it
altogether is best for you.
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