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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
(the two Selfs) are annihilated, is the true nature of
Atma-Jnana.
The seven Ajnana States: Now listen to a detailed
explanation of the 7 states of Ajnana, I gave out
before. They are called Bindu-Jagrat, Jagrat, Maha-
Jagrat, Jagrat-Swapna, Swapna, Swapna-Jagrat and
Sushupti. These 7 different states do interpenetrate
one another and receive different appellations. As
the one Jnana, which is nameless and stainless, is
the substratum and the generating Bindu (or the
seed) of all those which pass under the names and
actions of Manas, Jiva and others evolving and
flourishing, hence the first state is called Bindu-
Jagrat. This is the first or primary state. After the
incipient manifestation of Jiva, the feeble
conception of the differences of „I and He‟ and
„Mine and Thine‟ which arise then, they not having
existed in it before, is the second or upper Jagrat
state. Then the third state is induced, when, after
repeated births, the conceptions of the
heterogeneity of man and the universe do concrete
in the individual. Jagrat-Swapna is that state in
which the mind holds undisputed sovereignty over
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