Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
the things of the world in the Jagrat state through
previous effects, and overpowered by such objects,
whether seen or unseen before, revels in delight in
them. This Swapna state is enjoyed in the Jagrat or
waking state and is of various kinds, through the
experience of various delusions, such as the
misconceptions of water in a mirage, silver in
mother-o -pearl, two moons and others. Then in
the fifth state of pure Swapna, a review is made of
the innumerable events which one passes through
in a moment as if in a dream or reverie, and the
individual remembers them in his normal Jagrat
state. The sixth state is Swapna- Jagrat in which
one in the waking state, in trying to recollect things
long past has that Swapna consciousness, which
makes the past things to be clearly in recollection
now, not as in Swapna but as in the Jagrat state. A
Jiva after crossing these six states, reaches the
Sushupti state in which its intelligence, finds all
these Avasthas (states) to be but inert and beset
with sore pains. All the worlds will seem to be (or
are) generated out of and perish in the mist of
Maya in these Avasthas or states. These 7 states of
Ajnana have countless ramifications, each being
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