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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
It becomes Manas: This ever-agitated Manas having
come into existence out of the ineffable Brahman
creates the world according to its own Sankalpa.
This legerdemain of the universe springs out of the
Sankalpa of the Manas (mind). The word,
ornament signifies no other than the gold (or other
metal) of which it is composed: therefore it is
needless to apply the epithet „golden‟ to the word
ornament. Likewise the word universe means
Brahman and none else. The wise apply the many
epithets of the painful Moha (delusion), bondage,
Tamas, Mala (impurity), Avidya, Maya and
Samsara to this universe which, though arising out
of the unreal mind, appears as real to it, like the
waves in a flitting mirage. Now if you will hear
from us the nature of bondage, then you will
understand clearly Moksha. The existence in men
of the differences of conception of „I‟ and „you‟ is
bondage. So long as this Sankalpa in the visibles
exists, so long is it difficult for them to attain
salvation. Like a tree latent in a seed, all the
visibles will be merged in the seer then without
again manifesting itself. In the heart of a banyan
seed as the cause, there exist the variegated
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