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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
concentration of the same through initiation into
Jnana. (I7) The scourging of the body refers to the
pains created through the excessive
misconceptions of the mind. (I8). The peregrination
of the personage over a vast field is the roving over
the world, unconscious of the Reality that can be
attained only through the mastery of the perishable
Vasanas.
Hence it is that all the Sankalpas and Vasanas,
which a man generates, enmesh him as in a net. All
become subject to bondage through their own
Sankalpas and Vasanas like a silk-worm in its
cocoon. Having delved into your mind through
your stainless mind and thoroughly sifted it, may
you destroy your impure mind. So said the
illuminated Vasishta to Rama of clear mind.
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