The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 4 (of 4), Part 2 (of 2)Valmiki
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The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 4 (of 4), Part 2 (of 2)
Valmiki
Hinduism -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800; Religious life -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800
19. The intellectual Vacuum is found in the disquisitions of all the
sástras, to be what is neither this nor that nor any thing any where;
and yet as all and everything in every place and at all times. (_i.e._
Nothing concrete, but every thing in the abstract).
20. As a man travelling from country to country, retains his
consciousness untravelled in himself; so the intellect always rests in
its place in the interim, though the mind passes far and farther in an
instant.
21. The world is full of the intellect, both as it is or had ever been
before; and its outward sight being dependent on its ideas in the mind,
gives it the form and figure as they appear unto us.
22. It is by a slight winking of its eye, that it assumes and appears
in varied shapes; though the intellect never changes its form, nor
alters the clearness of its vacuous sphere.
23. Look on and know all these objects of sense, with thy external and
internal organs, and without any desire of thine for them; be ever
wakeful and vigilant about them, but remain as quite sleepy over them.
24. Be undesirous of any thing and indifferent in your mind, when you
speak to any one, take any thing or go any where; and remain as deadly
cold and quiet, as long as you have to live.
25. But it is impossible for you to remain as such, so long as you fix
your eyes and mind on the visibles before you; and continue to view the
mirage of the world, and look upon its duality rising as two moons in
the sky.
26. Know the world to be no production from the beginning; because
the want of its prior cause prevents its sequence; and there is no
possibility of a material creation, proceeding from an immaterial
causality.
27. Whatever appears as existent before you, is the product of a
causeless cause; it is the appearance of the transcendent One, that
appears visible to you. (The world is the visible form of the invisible
One).
28. The world as it stands at present, is no other than its very
original form; and the same undual and undivided pure soul appears as a
duality, as the disc of the moon and its halo present their two aspects
to us.
29. Thus the strong bias, that we have contracted from our false notion
of the duality; has at last involved us in the error of taking the
false for true, as to believe the shadow of a dream for reality.
30. Therefore the phenomenal world is no real production, nor does it
actually exist or is likely ever to come to existence; it is likewise
never annihilated, because it is impossible for a nihility to be nil
again.
31. Hence that thing which is but a form of the serene vacuum, must
be quiet, calm and serene also; and this being exhibited in the
form of the world, is of its own nature quite clear and steady, and
imperishable to all eternity. (The Beo-vyom or vacuum being a void,
cannot be annulled to a nullity again).
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