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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
the Brahmin which were found to be nil.
Thereupon Yama is said to have remarked to Kala
that the Brahmin was no other than Brahma
himself; though performing Karmas, Brahma had
nothing clinging to him, as he did not perform
them for any selfish purposes of his own. From
this, it will be clear that, ere creation began, there
was one vast space or Akasa with no activity in it
or in the noumenal state of Para Brahm.
When evolution began, three kinds or states of
Akasa are said to have evolved, vis., Jnanakasa,
Chidakasa and Bhutakasa. The last is the elemental
Akasa compounded of the quintuplicated five
elements, Akasa, Vayu, etc., whereas Chidakasa
corresponds to the plane of the lower mind.
Jnanakasa corresponds to the third body or plane.
The first ego of Brahma which is differentiated into
many is then, in the story of Lila, traced in its
workings in the three Akasa above-mentioned. The
three pairs introduced therein are (i) Lila and
Padma, (2) Arundhati and Vasistha, (3) Viduratha
and his spouse. In the story of Karkati we come to
the lowest stage, whether of the man or world. The
intelligence or Purusha that pervades the physical
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