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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
IV. STHITHI-PRAKARANA
1. THE STORY OF SUKRA VENUS
Summary: Having in the previous Prakarana given
out the Ajnana stages to show that the play of the
mind, arising out of Chaitanya, constitutes this
universe, as also the 7 Jnana stages to relieve one
from that universe, the author begins with this
Prakarana of five stories to show that this universe
shines as Chaitanya only, even after its rise and
during preservation.
Without the aid of a painter or a canvas or any
other materials of painting, the picture of the
universe appears depicted on the stainless
Chidakas. Having itself appeared, it is ever seeing-
itself, (as there is none else for it to see). Therefore
this universe is like a Swapna in Jagrat and not like
the state of Sushupti (sleep), when all conceptions
of organs are lost. The reflections of all the
universes in the non- differentiated Atma-Jnana
which is witness, all full, immaculate and all-
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