Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
of the world No actions of mine identify
themselves with my Self. Oh valorous Rama, those
intelligent disciples alone will be knowers of
Atman who, after thoroughly discriminating
between a guru of all-full Jnana and another of
Ajnana, find an asylum in a supreme immaculate
Guru. Those only who understand the teachings of
their Gurus (from all aspects) by an instantaneous
apprehension of what they (the Gurus) mean and
at what they drive, will see them realised
(afterwards) as in an objective vision. The stainless
Guru will never initiate into Tatwa Jnana those
who are weak-willed and addicted to sensual
desires.
The four means of Moksha: „If the four sentinels that
wait at the gates of Moksha (salvation) viz., Shanti
(sweet patience or quiescence of mind), Vichara
(Atmic enquiry), Santosha (contentment of mind)
and Sadhu-Sanga (association with the wise) be
befriended, then will there be any obstacle to the
attainment of salvation? (No). Like the waiters,
posted at the gates of the palace of a king
protecting the earth, who allow ingress to the
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