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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
divided a hundred-fold. Thus are the seven
Ajnana-Bhumikas (or states).
The seven Jnana states: Now to the seven Jnana-
Bhumikas. Disputants hold to infinite divisions of
these Jnana states. In my opinion I prefer to classify
them thus under a septenary head. The cognition
of the real nature of these Jnana states is Atma-
Jnana. The goal of all these is the imperishable
Nirvana. The seven stages are Subechcha, (spiritual
longing after the bliss given out in the Vedas),
Vicharana (enquiry therein), Tanumanasi, (the
melting of the mind in enquiry), Satvapatti, (the
passage of the mind in Truth) Asamsakti, (being
without Sankalpa), Padartha Bhavana (knowledge
of Truth), and Turya. Persons who have known
these states will never welter in the mind of
delusions. As Moksha arises therefrom, there will
be an end of all pains. Of what avail to us is the
wretched Moha? That desire which ever arises in
one to enjoy directly the Jnana- essence through the
path of indifference to objects after a study of
Atma-Jnana Sastras and association with the
knowers of Brahman is Subechcha. The second or
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