Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
time vanished, (as all conceptions of time arise
through the Vikalpas of the mind only). They the
events of seventy years) are only like long-drawn
dreams of many events enacted in one Muhurta (48
minutes). Even our life during the waking state
appears prolonged in diverse ways through the
many unreal events performed. To tell you truly,
there is no such thing as births or deaths to you.
You are the true Jnana alone. You are the eternal
supreme Seat. Hence though seeing the whole
universe, you see it not. Being of the nature of all,
you art shining through your wisdom in the Atmic
Reality. The old adage runs to the effect that a nonlisping
baby, which is obsessed while in the cradle,
will be freed from such pos session in the
crematorium only. Similarly is the Ajnana (illusion)
in man; and to the ignorant full of this painful
Ajnana, the universe appears to be real. Persons
ignorant of gold will assert an ornament made of
gold to be the former 8 58 alone and not the latter.
Likewise, persons devoid of spiritual vision will
maintain this universe to be the inert one only,
(and not spirit, the seer free from the seen). Know
also all the universes, arising through the egoism
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