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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
elephant is ever rutting with the three, passion,
anger and delusion. If you will only destroy the
painful Ahankara of the mind and conquer the foes
of organs, then will the ever-waking Vasanas
subside like a forest of lotuses enveloped by snow.
So long as one through the mastery of his mind is
not convinced of the reality of the non-dual
Principle, so long will the anguish of his mind not
cease like the (conception of) ghosts inseparable
from intense gloom. This mind whirling through
pains is sometimes stated to be a clever statesman,
as it enables Jnanis to cognize their own Self
through the discrimination of Tatwas. It is also
dubbed with the appellations of „crafty general,‟ or
a „menial,‟ through the different functions it fulfils,
of annihilating its enemy of organs or itself
performing any actions it chooses through its own
volition. In the case of true Jnanis, their pure mind
for which there is no choice of discrimination
(between the two paths of virtue and vice)
constitutes their better half, as it enables them to
enjoy un alloyed bliss. It can, at the same time, be
stated to be their father or true friend father on
account of its protecting nature; a rare friend
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