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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
Pandit merely laughed over the affair without an
answer. Thus are most of our Pandits, theorizing
only with nothing practical about them and
soaring into the region of the Absolute without a
proper knowledge of the basic foundations of
Vedanta.
But Yoga Vasistha has chalked out for itself a new
and distinct path. At first, it enunciates a doctrine
in its several bearings and then elucidates it with
beautiful stories. There in it gives also rules of
guidance for the conduct of life in the daily world,
these also finding their illustrations in the stories
given out. As in the Puranas, we have not to rack
our brains over with the slight hints thrown therein
and to sometimes give up in despair the problems
before us.
Secondly This book serves as a ladder wherewith
to scale from the Seswara Sankhya doctrine of
Patanjali as given out in his Yoga-Sutras to the
Maya-conception of the Advaita Pantheists and
thus renders possible a reconciliation between
them both. Through a study of Patanjali’s Yoga
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