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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
enacts its affairs in this Puriashtaka 25 body, like a
gem in a casket.
Atman’s Nature: Being the immaculate Jnana, It is
the all-pervading Akasa itself. Whatever objects It
contemplates upon, those objects come into
existence (at once). In that Jnana, all the three
worlds will arise and be destroyed, like water in a
mirage. Having evolved all objects, It will yet be in
its true state unaffected, as if disconnected with
them. The origin and absorption of the universe do
not take place from and into Nirvikalpa 26 Atman
direct. If one should hold communion with that
Supreme Principle, devoid of mental fancies and
modifications, then the great bondage of the mind
will cease, all doubts will vanish, and all Karmas
will perish.
How all can enter into Brahman? Here Rama asked
Vasistha thus „I may rather believe the entire
Mahameru mountains to enter a mustard seed than
25 Puriashtaka body is the body composed of eight principles as the
organs of sense, etc.
26 Nirvikalpa Atman - Atman free from Vikalpas, etc.
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