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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
There are some peculiar traits in the feature of this
work as contradistinguished from other spiritual
works in the Sanskrit literature. As all know, the
Vedas and the Upanishads are so mystic in their
nature in many places that their real meaning is
not grasped clearly and all persons except true
occultists rare to find in this world interpret them
in different ways, one holding that the Vedas
inculcate nature worship, another putting upon
them a diametrically opposed view and so on.
Even in the Ten Upanishads, all the metaphysical
leaving aside for the present, as impossible, the
occult theories have not been worked out in a
systematic manner except in the way of some clues
vouchsafed thereupon. Taking the Puranas in their
dead letter light, our Pandits generally have found
them replete with indecent and absurd stories and
thrown them into a corner; and hence the nick
name of Puranas has been applied, in ordinary
usage amongst us, to anything that is a farrago of
fictions and absurdities. But for the timely
resurrection of them by H. P. Blavatsky with the
profound ray of light shed upon them by her,
almost all of us should have unanimously buried,
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