Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
in this world of pains, who ever vanquished me.
All came under my jaws. It is the unalterable and
eternal decree of Parameswara and not myself, that
I should be the cause of the destruction of all
created lives. This law ever endures. In the
immaculate Jnana introvision, all the differences of
actor and enjoyer are lost, but in the Ajnana vision
of people, these exist in concrete shapes. All
creatures arising through the force of their Karma
are born through Sankalpa and perish at the end of
a Kalpa. Then at the time of Pralaya, where shall
we find the Jnana- Vision developed through a
recitation of the Vedas? Where will all your
firmness of will then be? Where will your glory
then be? Where will be then all your present
despondency which trembles like a person full of
mental darkness, ignorant of the path laid down by
the Great? Are you justified in cursing me through
your anger, without trying to understand the
present situation of your son brought on by his
own Sankalpa? Attend what I say. It is the mind
alone that is Atman and none else. The mind‟s acts
(and not the bodily acts) are alone true acts.
Through its life in this world, it is called Jiva. It is
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