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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
UTPATTI PRAKARANA
1. THE STORY OF AKASAJA, THE SON OF
AKASA
Summary: Having initiated Rama, bent upon
attaining: salvation, (he, having developed the first
three means before), into the nature of the nondual
One and into the endeavours that should be
made in attaining that One, viz., through the
creation of pure Vasanas and, for their furtherance,
the development of Santi and other qualities,
Vasistha, in order that the self-cognition of Turya
Jnana may dawn in the Prince, now continues in
four Prakaranas or chapters by stating that the
consciousness reflected in the Lila-Sankalpa of
Brahman whichever is, before creation, of the
nature of Sat, Chit and Ananda, is alone the origin
of the universe, its manifestation and its absorption
and that the one Chaitanya (absolute
consciousness, vie., Brahman) which contains in
itself this Trinity and is its seat, is the Nirvanic
bliss. Thus in order to show that all is Brahman, the
author in the succeeding four Prakaranas, begins
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