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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
The proper means to subjugate the mind is Jnana
or the development of spiritual wisdom. And it is
done only through the path of (the realisation of)
these Jnana Bhumikas. Without the aid of these
transcendent Jnana Bhumikas, the noble Brahmic
State can never be attained. That Self-shining
principle is non-dual which has not the
heterogeneity of conceptions such as you, I, or one
self or another, etc., which is difference-less,
stainless or causeless; which is the surprise-less
bliss, the quiescent Jnana and the one, without
destruction, name, highness or lowness, being, or
non-being, beginning or end, affinities, positive or
negative (attributes), and diversity; it is above the
reach of Manas and speech, the bliss of bliss and
the Plenum of all bereft of all desires. This is that
Brahman to which you can reach, through the
septenary Bhumikas.
Now listen, oh Rama, to the marvellous effects of
Maya. After the great King Lavana had recovered
from his trance, he saw, through his mirror of
mind, the forests on the slopes of the Vindhya
Mountains, and consulted with his courtiers as to
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