The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 4 (of 4), Part 2 (of 2)

by Valmiki

75. It is by uniting one’s intellectuality, with the universal and divine intellect, and by the union of the subjective and objective and their perceptibility in one’s self, by means of the tripúti yoga, that we can see the world in its true light.

76. One universal and vacuous intellect, being all pervading and omnipresent, is the all seeing subject and all seen objects by itself; hence whatever is seen or known to be anywhere, is the very verity of the intellect and no other.

77. As oscillation is inherent in air, and fluidity is immanent in water; so is amplitude intrinsical in Brahma, and the plentitude is innate in the Divine mind.

78. Even I am Brahma also in his self manifest form of Virát, which embodies the whole world as its body; hence there is no difference of the world from Brahma, as there is none between air and vacuity.

79. As the drops of water as a cataract, assume many forms and run their several ways; so the endless works of nature take their various forms and courses, at different places and times.

80. All beings devoid of their senses and understanding, issue as waters of the waterfall, from the cascade of the divine mind; and remain forever in their uniform courses, with the consciousness of their existence in Brahma.

81. But such as come forth from it, with the possession of their senses and intellects in their bodies, deviate in different ways like the liquid waters, in pursuit of their many worldly enjoyments.

82. They are then insensibly led, by their want of good sense, to regard this world as theirs (i.e. the sphere of their actions, कर्म्मक्षेत्र); being ignorant of its identity with the uncreated spirit of God.

83. As we see the existence and distribution of other bodies in us, and the inertness of stones in our bodies; so the Lord perceives the creation and annihilation of the world, and its inertia in himself.

84. As in our state of sleep we have both our sound sleep and our dreams also; so doth the divine soul perceive the creation as well as its annihilation, in its state of perfect rest and tranquility.