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Válmiki
Yoga-Vāsistha, Book 6: Nirvāna-Prakarana (On ultimate extinction) - part 2. Chapter 164 - Unity of the Divinity and the Mundane World
Vasistha continue: The atoms of living souls in the world, are as the particles of rays in the orb of the sun, 1; and as all these parts taken collectively, make the one undivided whole; so there is no division of the unity of the Deity, throughout the whole creation.
By attaining the transcendental knowledge of all being the One, and the One as all; every thing looses its shape and form before us, and there remains nothing whatever as a distinct being or duality.
The true believer or knower of truth, sees the self same object in all states and forms of things; and this is the transcendent and translucent Brahma only, and nothing else whatsoever at any time.
He is the same, that is known to the ignorant, as their objects of sense; but we don't recognize either ourselves or others, or the sensible objects of the ignorant as such.
The belief of the ignorant man in the reality of himself, yourself and all others, does not effect the knower of truth, as the delusion of mirage never overtakes the man on mount Meru; 2.
As the man intent upon one object, has no consciousness of any other thing in his mind; so one enrapt at the sight of god alone, is conscious of nothing besides.
There neither is nor was nor shall ever be, any such thing as the material world at any time; the world in esse is the image of Brahma himself, and abides in his spirit.
The world is the splendour of the crystalline vacuum of the Divine Intellect, and subsists in the vacuity of the supreme soul itself; it is in this light that the universe is seen in the dhyāna yoga or abstruse contemplation of Yogī.
As there is nothing in a empty dream or in the aerial castle of imagination except the clear atmosphere of the Intellect; so there is no essence or substance nor form or figure of this world that we view in our present waking state.
At first there was no creation of any kind, nor this world which appears to us 3; it exists in its aerial form in the Divine Mind from all eternity; and there being no primary or secondary cause of it, how is it possible to call it a material thing of its own spontaneous growth.
Therefore there is nothing that sprang itself out of nothing at first, nor was there ever a creator called Brahma or other by the ignorant, in the beginning; there is nothing but an infinite void from eternity to eternity, which is filled by the self born or increate spirit, whose intellect exhibits this creation, contained forever and ever in its vacuity.
Footnotes
1. or as the sparks of fire in a furnace
2. where the deceptive sands of the deserts are wanting
3. in its material form
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