Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
atom? All your words are as incredible as these
and will not fit in with truth.‟
The Goddess replied thus, ‟I never told you an
untruth. I will now explain you how my words are
true. Persons like myself will never derogate from
the laws of Iswara but will hold to them as the true
ones. The Brahmin s Jiva lives invisibly in his own
house in the city. All his kingdom and Padma
regality are of the nature of Jnanakasa only. Now,
Oh Lila, with eyes bedaubed with black ointment,
Vasistha of the nature of Chidakasa, when he
became overjoyed (with the sight of the king), saw
all these things in the Manas Akasa. This old
thought (or creation) of Vasistha without
manifesting itself as such to you now appears to
you as different (as Padma creation). Just as the
many events of the Jagrat (waking) state are not
enacted in the dreaming state, Padma creation and
its thoughts do then predominate without the
reminiscences of the Vasistha state. Out of the
above mentioned all-pervading Jnanakasa shining
through Sat which is its own power and form part
essence of that (JnAna)Akasa arose this terrible
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