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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
Vicharana is the mastery of the good qualities of
the wise and of Atmic contemplation with the rise
of spiritual desires in one. When after these two
states are fully developed in him, he abandons the
natural desires and his mind is concentred on one
object at its will, then it (the mind) is rendered lean
like Tanu (fine thread) and the third stage is
reached. All desires being eliminated from the
mind through the above three processes, Tatwa
Jnana is developed and this is the fourth state of
Truth. Beyond these is the fifth state when he
disconnects himself from all Sankalpas by merging
into the blissful enjoyment of true Jnana without
association with objects. When these five states are
fully developed in an individual, he is drowned in
the Elysian bliss of Atma-Jnana and then he loses
all affinities for objects. After the ripening of these
five states and the development of quiescence
through merging into one s own Self of Atma-
Jnana, all perception of objects, external and
internal, is lost and the person, if at all he has any
perception of objects, has it only through sheer
external compulsion. This is the state called
Padartha-Bhavana. Then the Turya, the seventh
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