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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
longings for visibles cease, then such an abnegation
of mind is itself the destruction of Ajnana or the
mind. Desires of objects are themselves pains; but
non-desires are themselves Nirvanic bliss. Such
bliss is generated through one s efforts only. The
knowledge of the ignorant which makes them
conceive the world to be real, while it is illusory
and exists but in name, is dissipated as unreal
when they cognize all things to be Consciousness
per se.
At these words of Vasishta, Rama queried him thus
„How can this ignorance which fructifies out of the
wealth of Avidya in this world, be effaced clean off
from here? Please favour me with your elucidation
on this point.‟ To which Vasistha of powerful
Tapas replied thus. If the eternal Atman is hurled
on the slopes of the hills of dire re-births, beset
with the sharp thorns of excruciating pains, and if
Maya which is associated with the Atman there be
seen as real, then it is certain that no Tatwic Vision
(or vision of the Reality) will arise. If the allpervading
transcendent Reality, after the Avidya of
re-birth is crossed, should begin to illumine a
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