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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
diversified visible objects, constitutes bondage;
freedom from it, constitutes Moksha. We shall put
forth, to you, things in such a manner as to relieve
you from the attraction of all visibles. Please
therefore hearken well to the following. At the end
of a Kalpa, when all the visible universes are
annihilated like a dream in Sushupti, there remains
the in comparable Tatwa Jnana existing by itself
alone, devoid of the fluctuations of thought, form,
name and others and without the transcendent vast
darkness of Ajnana and the light of Vritti 21 or
mental Jnana. This Supreme Principle is termed by
the wise, for the purpose of understanding it, Satya
(Truth), Brahman, Atman, Param (the Supreme)
and such like; and manifesting itself as another in a
mysterious manner, shines with the title of Jiva; it
becomes thereafter, subject to all pains. Then this
Atman which goes now by the name of Jiva and
which is the Spirit of the latter, concretes itself
through the Sankalpa of thought into Manas
(mind).
21 There are two kinds of wisdom, Vritti Jnana and Swarupa Jnana. The
former pertains to Manas, the reasoning mind, and the latter, to
intuition or Buddhi.
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