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
24. In your forgetfulness of the world you will find nothing to be seen
or enjoyed in it, and nothing of its entity or nullity whatsoever; it is
as well as it is all quiet and still as the calm and unruffled ocean for
ever.
25. The whole visible world is Brahma himself, and as such, the ocean of
it is to be understood as a positive reality; it is a bubble in His
eternity, which is all quiet and calm after immersion of bubbles and
waves.
26. Meek and tolerant men, are seen to be sedate and dispassionate in
their worldly transaction; and to be resigned to the Supreme spirit in
their souls. (Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the kingdom
of heaven).
27. Or the saint whose soul is extinct in his god, has only his meekness
remaining in him; and being devoid of all desire, he is unfit for all
worldly concerns. (It is hard to attend equally to one’s secular and
spiritual concerns).
28. As long as one is not perfect in the extinction of his soul in the
deity, he may be employed in the practice of his secular duties, by
being devoid of passions, animosity and fear of any one. (This is
enjoined for a devotee, till he reaches the seventh stage of his
devotion).
29. The saint being freed from his passions and feelings of anger and
fear and other affections, and getting the tranquility of _nirvána_
extinction in his mind, becomes as frigid as snow and remains as a block
of stone forever.
30. As the pericarp contains the seed of the future flower in it, so the
saint has all his thoughts and desires quite concealed in his inmost
soul, and never gives any vent to them on the outside.
31. The mind wanders on the outside by thinking about the outer world,
and so is it confined within itself by its meditation on the inner soul;
such is the contemplation of the Supreme being, either as he is thought
of or seen in spirit in the inner soul, or viewed himself to be
displayed in his works of creation in the outer world. (The spiritual
and natural adoration of God).
32. The outer world is no other than an external representation of the
delusive dream, which is in the inside of ourselves; there is not the
slightest difference between them, as there is none in the same milk,
contained in two different pots only.
33. The motion or inertness and the fickleness or steadiness of the one
or other of them, are no more than the effects of our lengthened
delusion; and the state of one being the container of the other, makes
no difference in them, as there is none between the containing ocean and
the waves it contains.
34. The dreams that we see in sleep, are no other than operations of the
mind, though they are supposed in our ignorance to be quite apart from
ourselves.
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