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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
person, then it is he will perceive objectively that
desires are the form of perishable Maya and that
the mere extinction of Maya is Moksha. With the
extinction of the base Sankalpas, there is the
extinction of Avidya. With the drawing of the sun
of Jnana in the heart, the gloom of Ajnana is at once
dispersed.
Here Rama interposed and said, „You were pleased
to say that all visible things are but Maya; also that
Maya will perish without any hindrance through
Jnana or Atmic meditation. What is Atman?‟
To which Vasistha of immeasurable Tapas replied
thus It is the transcendental Jnana of Brahman
which does not manifest itself objectively in the
visibles, is the Plenum, and the one that is,
possessing no name. All the things in the world
that are pointed out as this or that are no other
than the eternal Brahman of the nature of Jnana.
The illusory impure mind is not. All things such as
birth and death in the three worlds are not really in
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