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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
of time and gave the following explanation. Oh
Rama, as it is a rule that all persons who perform
Raja Suya Yajna have to undergo dire sufferings
for a period of twelve years, Lavana had to suffer
from his merited suffering after the completion of
his mental Yajna. So it was that Indra sent a
messenger of his to afflict the King with pains. This
celestial messenger assumed the guise of a Siddha,
meted out rare pains to the King and departed
back to his realm.
Jnana and Ajnana: Well, Oh Ramachandra, there are
two states, Jnana and Ajnana. Each of them is
septenary in its nature. They are mutually
interdependent. Infinite are the sub-divisions of
paths, which overlap one another in the
septenary 50 divisions of both these states. The
Jnana path which enables one to cognize
perceptively the one Reality is Moksha, whereas
the other, which makes men detract from the one
Reality and identify „I „with their bodies, etc., is
bondage.
50 This corroborates the Theosophical doctrine of the septenary division.
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