CHAPTER XXXXI.
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Valmiki and Mitra, Viharilala
39. There are the essences of colour, water and taste also, and likewise the essences of smell and flavour too.
40. There are the essences of earth and gold, and the essences of thick mass; and also the essences of time and space, all of which are without form and shape.
41. The spiritual body contains all these essences in itself as its component parts, as the seed of a fruit contains the leaves and germ of the future tree in its cell.
42. Know this to be ativáhika or spiritual body, and containing the eight elementary senses, wherefore it is called the puryashtaka also; and these are developed afterwards in the organs of sense.
43. The primary or spiritual body which is formed in this manner, is actually nobody at all; since it is devoid of understanding, intellect, senses and sensibility.
44. It is the supreme Being only, which contains the essence of the soul, as it is the sea which contains the limpid waters.
45. The soul is that which is possessed of its consciousness and knowledge, all besides this is dull and insensible matter; and which is viewed by the soul, as the sight of a fairy land in the dream.
46. It is therefore by consciousness and knowledge that Siva can be known, and what is not to be known by these can be nothing at all.
47. The supreme soul sees all things within itself, as parts of itself (produced from its will of becoming or dividing itself into many); and beholds particles of his atomic self, formed into innumerable bodies.
48. These soon increased in bulk and became big bodies, and bore the marks of the organs upon them.
49. Then it became of the form of a man, from his thought of being so; and this soon grew up in its size of a full grown man.
50. So do our bodies appear to us in our living state, as the fairyland appears to one in his dream.
51. Vasishtha said:—I see the appearance of the human body, to resemble the vision of the fairyland in the dream; and I see also the miseries awaiting on human life in this world. Now tell me, my Lord! how all this misery is to be removed from it.
52. The god replied—All human woe is owing to their desires, and belief of the reality of the world; but it must be known to be all as unreal, as waves of water seen in a sea in the mirage.
53. There why such desire, and for what good and use, and why should the dreaming man be deluded to drink the show of water in the mirage?
54. The viewer of truth, who is freed from his views of egoism and tuism, and has got off from the deluded and its delusive thoughts, doth verily behold the true entity of God in his presence, in the utter absence of all worldly thoughts from his mind.
55. Where there is no desirer or desire or the desired object, but the only thought of the one unity, there is an end of all error and misery.
56. He whose mind is freed from the true and false bugbears of common and imaginary error, and is settled in the thought of one unity alone, sees nothing but the unity before him.
57. The desires of the mind, rise as goblins in the midway sky; and the thoughts of the world rove about the sphere of the mind, as the numerous worlds revolve in the sky hence there is no peace of the soul, unless these subside to rest.
58. It is useless to advise the man to wisdom, who is elated by his egoism, and is deluded by the waters of the mirage of this evanescent world.
59. Wise men should advise the prudent only, and throw away their instruction to boys that are wandering in error, and are shunned by good people. To give good counsel to the ignorant, is as offering a fair daughter in marriage to the spectre of man seen in a dream.