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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
giving a faint idea of Brahmic bliss. All persons
have two bodies, a subtle one suitable to the mind
and a gross one. The mind performs all actions
very speedily in this mental body and fluctuates
thereby. But the gross body knows not anything
and is inert.
At these words of Vasistha, Rama asked to be
enlightened as to the nature of this inert and
formless body of the mind. To which, Muni
Vasistha of the nature of Jnana replied thus, in the
words of Brahma „The form which the endless
Atman of all potencies assumes through Sankalpa
is Manas. All conceptions associated with actions
arising out of that (real) state which is intermediate
between the powerful Sat and Asat are nothing but
the forms of the mind. No matter whence that
mind proceeds or what form it manifests itself
with, if it is made to tread the path leading to
Moksha or to merge into Atman, then it will be
conducive to its progress.
Now hearken to an archaic story related by
Brahma of old. There was a great forest of dire
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