Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
you, after clearing, through your discrimination,
your mind free of all illusions cognize the pure
Truth. Do not be appalled at the idea that you are
under trammels, while in fact you are not so. Is it
possible for the immaculate and indestructible
Brahmic Principle to be bound? While Brahman
alone is that which is not subject to the limitations
of Time, Space and Substance, is non-dual and is
Absolute Consciousness devoid of all
heterogeneity, what is there in this world to be
bound or to gain salvation? All are nothing but the
expansion of Sankalpas (and Vikalpas). The
expansion of the mind s thoughts (towards objects)
is bondage; while the abandoning of the same is
emancipation. Through the play of the mind in
objects, proximity appears to be a great distance
and vice-versa. Through the force of the mind, a
Kalpa is reckoned by it as a moment and viceversa.
There is a story current which illustrates this
idea well. Thereby it will be quite apparent to you
that this legerdemain of the world is enacted by the
mind and the mind alone.
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