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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
the whole of Brahma s egg to merge into Brahman
which is (said to be) the atom of atoms. To which,
Vasistha of rare Tapas replied thus „This doubt of
yours can be removed only after a study of Atma-
Jnana Sastras and the association with the wise for
a number of months and not days. The conclusion
of all Sastras points to this only. Those who have
with great pains understood clearly this abstruse
account (of evolution, etc.,) go into Samadhi and
who through it, attain a direct cognition of the allfull
Jnana, will reach the supreme state of a
Jivanmukta, devoid of this illusory universe,
though existent to others; and then this Jivanmukti
state is no other than the Videhamukti state, the
progress to the latter state being a mere matter of
course.
Then Rama asked the Muni to enlighten him as to
the efforts that should be made by him to tread the
path laid down by the Sastras to attain the
Jivanmukti and Videhamukti states. Vasistha
replied thus „Such persons, though moving in
worldly objects, do not participate in them like the
Chidakasa, which though permeating all objects,
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