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LAGHU <strong>YOGA</strong> VASISTHA<br />

Brahma himself. Then the ten lokas 43 were created.<br />

Ten kinds of creations were generated by these ten<br />

personages in their Manasakasa. Out of the ten<br />

creations of ten Suns, I am one.‟ So saying, he (the<br />

sun) vanished out of sight.<br />

Said Vasistha to Rama As all the visible universes<br />

are existent only through the expansion of this<br />

crass mind, the swan-seated Brahma created, in<br />

accordance with this law, all the worlds through<br />

his mind only.<br />

5. THE STORY or THE DECEITFUL INDRA<br />

Summary: Having shown that the universe is<br />

nothing but the mind manifesting as such only<br />

through the potency of Brahman, the author now<br />

proceeds to illustrate, in this story, the fact that the<br />

body with its organs, etc., is no other than mind.<br />

The creator of the in<strong>com</strong>parable worlds and the<br />

slayer of Atman (the Real) is the mind only. The<br />

43 This stands for the 3 worlds of Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra besides<br />

the Bhu, etc., up to Satya or for the ten solar systems.<br />

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