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
10. There are two very serious diseases waiting on mankind, in their
cares for this as well as those of the next world; and both of these are
attended with intolerable pains to the patients of both their temporal
as well as spiritual maladies.
11. In this world the intelligent are seen to try all their best
medicines in vain, to remove their inveterate diseases of hunger and
thirst, by means of their remedies of food and drink, during the whole
period of their lives; but there is no remedy whatever for to heal their
spiritual maladies of sin and vile, and avert their inevitable fate
of death and rebirths in endless succession.
12. The best sort of men are trying to heal their spiritual maladies,
and avert their future fate, by means of the ambrosial medicines of
dispassionateness, keeping good company and improvement of their
understanding.
13. Those who are careful to cure their spiritual complaint, become
successful to get their riddance, by means of their desire of getting
better, and by virtue of the best medicine of abstinence and refraining
from evil. (Gloss. _apathya tyága &c._).
14. Whoever does not heal even now his deadly disease of sin, which is
his leader to hell fire on future; let him say what remedy is left for
him to try, after he has gone to the next world, where there is no
balsam to heal the sickly soul.
15. Try all earthly medicines to preserve your life, from being wasted
away by earthly diseases; and keep your souls entire for the next world,
by the healing balm of spiritual knowledge in this life.
16. This life is but a breath, alikens a tremulous dew drop, hanging at
the end of a shaking leaf, and ready to fall down; but your future life
is long, and enduring under all its variations, therefore heal it for
the everlasting futurity.
17. By carefully attending to the treatment of spiritual diseases at
present, you will not only be hale and holy in your soul in the next
world, but evade all the diseases of this life, which will fly off afar
from you.
18. Know thy conscious soul as an animalcule, which evolves itself into
the form of this vast world; just as an atom contains a huge mountain in
it, which evolves from its bosom in time.
19. As the evolution of your consciousness, presents to your view the
forms that you have in your mind (_i.e._ ideals); so doth the phenomenon
of the world appear in the womb of vacuum, and is no more real than a
false phantasy.
20. Notwithstanding the repeated deluge and destruction of the visible
earth, there is no change nor end of the false phantom of our mind,
where its figure is neither destroyed nor resuscitated, owing to its
being a phantasy only and no reality whatever. (It is possible to
destroy the form of _a_, but not its idea in the mind).
21. Should you like to lift up your soul, from the muddy pit of earthly
pleasures and desires, wherein it drowned forever; you must put forth
your manly virtues, as the only means to this end, and without which
there is no other.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account