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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
The following are the leading characteristics that
differentiate a person who has cognized the one
Reality from another who has not. Those are
immovably fixed in the Jnana Reality, the eternal
Absolute Sat, who have conquered all passions,
anger and delusions, but in the case of those who
are not truly illuminated, they will be but the
slaves of their passions, etc. The intelligence of one
who dotes on the body and its organs, leads him
away from the one Reality. The mindwhich makes
one swerve from the path of Atmic Reality, is itself
Moha or delusion. There is really no other than
this, which deserves the name of Moha, in all the
three periods. (The one) Reality can be defined to
be that Jnana which exists without Sankalpa, in a
state intermediate between the conception of an
object and that of another. This Jnana is devoid of
fancies and fluctuation and of the Vritti-Jnana of
(Swapna) the dreaming state or the Ajnana of
(Sushupti) the dreamless sleeping state. That nonfluctuating
certainty of mind, wherein it is of the
nature of bliss and when all the conceptions of the
identification of „I „with the body, as well as all
differences between Jivatman and Paramatman
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