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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
universe through the Sankalpa of the mind, like an
image reflected in a glass. All the shining universes
will be latent as light within the Jnana Reality
which is the illuminated supreme Atom. There fore
it is that the abovementioned earth and others of
the Brahmin will manifest themselvey in (and out
of) Jnana. Now you shall know all these directly.‟
So said Saraswati, when Lila asked her „It was
stated by you, that the Brahmin expired on the
eighth day. That period passed with me as
millenniums. Please explain this to me.‟ Then the
goddess continued thus „Just as space, which, as
mentioned before, is nothing but a play (or mode)
of consciousness, is not all-pervading and hence
not real, so also is time. As it is the Jnana light
alone devoid of the modifications of Maya, that
manifests itself as time and space, hence there is no
such thing as the limit of time or space. Through
the illusion of death, the body became entranced
for a moment and the Jiva parted from it.
Becoming oblivious of all the thoughts of its former
body, it is filled with the thoughts of this life only.
It is only when the Jiva revives from the fatal
trance of such false conceptions as I am greatly
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