The simile between 'samura' and ocean
Sri Vasista
O Raghava, all these worlds are presents (gifts) from Brahman. They acquire firmness and stability due to lack of discrimination. They are destroyed through discrimination.
Who can even enumerate the waves, called worlds in the sea of Brahman? Who can count the photons in the light rays?
Know that the reason for the existence of world is nonintegral, nonholistic perception. The only reason for the destruction of the mutable world is holistic perception.
-7 O Rama, this ocean of 'samsara' is very difficult and fearful to cross without right effort and right strategy. This ocean is full of waters, called delusion. It has fiendish vortices, called death. Its waves are high and wide. Virtue is its foam. Ocean fire is its hell. It has many ripples, called desires. It has a water elephant, called mind. Rivers, called lives, flow into it. Pleasures are the pearl caskets hidden in it. Senses are crocodiles and diseases are huge serpents slithering in it.
-12 O Rama, look at the ocean. There are waves, called beautiful, charming women who can delude even the most steadfast of men. Their lips are like rubies (hidden in the ocean). Their eyes are like lotuses spread on the waters. Their smile is like foam. Hairs are like 'Indranila' diamonds. The eye brows are like a row of waves. Their hips are like sand dunes. Their throats are like conches. Their glances are shattering. Their skin has the sheen of gold. If anyone can dare to cross such a ocean that is a great person with enormous capability.
-14 . Fie upon him who cannot cross the 'samsara' ocean when equipped with a ship, called intelligence and navigator, called discrimination! Overwhelming this sea with knowledge of Brahman and making that knowledge pervade the entire world, one should (once again) dive into it. Such a one is worthy of being called a 'purusha'.
O Rama, it will be splendorous to cross this ocean of world in the company of knowers of Self whose perception of the world is same and then play in the world-field; It not otherwise.
-17 . O gentle Rama, you are fulfilled. You are inquiring into the nature of this world even at an young age. Anyone, like you, who inquires into this world- nature with perfect intelligence will never get drowned in it again.
-19 . O Rama, first understand the nature of the serpents, called pleasures, And then, like Garuda swallowing serpents, enjoy those pleasures. Such riches and pleasures will yield good fruits in later times.
In spring trees increase in grace and attraction. Similarly strength, intelligence and radiance increase in a man who knows the nature of Self.
O Rama, you have comprehended the essence of Self with ease. And so you are shinning brilliant with the lustre of bliss, which is pure and cool.
