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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
ripping open of his stomach will be like the
application of sandal over his body and the
piercing in his breast of straight- pointed
innumerable lancets will be like cool water
sprinkled from a pump in the long summer season.
The poisonous disease of sensual objects unfit to be
associated with, can be avoided only by those who
have developed the discriminative (spiritual)
wisdom and not by any others.
„It is not through a mere enquiry into Atman Jnana
know ledge that Nirvanic bliss is attained? If one
should conduct himself in such a way as to
assimilate‟(as one), within himself, the knowledge
derived from the three sources of his selfexperience,
the true significance of the holy
sentences in the spiritual Books and the
instructions of a wise Guru, then the inseparable
Atmic wisdom will rise in him. The mere study of
rare Jnana books by persons of petty intelligence
will but breed Ajnana in their minds. Books
treating of devotion and the performance of rituals
will generate less Ajnana than the study of Jnana
books (unaccompanied by the other two above
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