Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
alone. Now hearken to what I say. Those who
without longing for objects avoid them, can be
termed the subjugators of their Manas (mind).
Those who do not develop the painless Vairagya
inhering in one‟s Self and that with great facility
and happiness, are at best but vermin in human
shape. If the mind be divested of the Sankalpa of
„I,‟ then through the meditation of Atman after
being initiated by a guru and having known the
real significance of the Vedas given out by Lord,
the mind can be turned back from the pains
generating externals into the internals where it can
be made happy. Like one iron shaping another
iron, the pure mind of a person which makes
efforts in the virtuous path, should correct and
mould his impure mind. To lovers of Moksha in
whom the invincible desires take a tangible shape
and who try to win their way up to Salvation
through their own efforts, the easy abandonment
of their dire mind is itself their transcendental path
and they then feel as if a great load were off their
heads. No other path is truly beneficial.
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