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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
mind. Such a process is the real seat (or import) of
the holy sentences in the Vedas; but yet it is
exterior to them, as it is through self-experience
alone that such a process can be developed. It
occupies a seat intermediate between Sat 41 (being)
and Asat (non-being) and is the real state of the
two. It is this Sankalpa of the mind that brings into
play this world with all its moving and fixed
creatures. You have in your questions referred to
Brahman only which, manifesting itself as this
universe, is yet the impartite plenum of Jnana
through its being the non-dual Principle from of
old. This is the one Reality cognized by men of true
love.‟
At these words of the king, the Rakshasa woman
felt her whole body cooled as if showers of nectar
were rained on it. Having steadied herself after her
exultation was over, she gave vent to the following
words: „Do not all men wear, as their crown, the
feet of such holy personages like yourselves who
41 Here Sat and Asat mean existence and non-existence or Purusha and
Prakriti. Whereas Satta is applied to Parabrahma which is Be-ness as
opposed to being- or non-being.
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