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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
be destroyed at all costs. Dire, very dire are its
effects. Through this dire Ahankara, myriads of
souls have been deluded and bereft of all
intelligence. The more you soon annihilate this
Ahankara through the above mentioned two kinds
of Ahankara, the more will the Brahmic Principle
dawn in you. Endeavour, through the higher two
kinds of Ahankara, to attain Brahman: then if you
are firmly seated in that Seat where even these two
kinds of Ahankara are given up, one by one, then
such a state is the ripe Brahmic seat. The nonidentification
of „I‟ with the visible body (or the
visibles) is the Nirvana proclaimed by the Vedas.
Now hearken well to the characteristics of these
Ahankaras. After the utter annihilation of the
above mentioned Asuras, Dama and others,
Sambarasura who was well versed in Maya vidya
became greatly incensed with the haughty Devas
and having reflected in diverse ways upon
devising means for their destruction soliloquised
thus „The three Asuras, D &ma and others, whom I
created before were devoid of Atma-Jnana; and
hence seized with the unreal conception of I‟ and
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