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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
nor are they in states intermediate (between these
pairs).
Here Rama asked Vasistha for enlightenment as to
how this universe is in the one Tatwa and the
eternal Atma-Jnana which is above all the
universes. To which Vasistha replied thus „Like the
one Akasa which, though permeating all objects as
inseparable from them, is yet through its subtle
nature distinct from them, so the homogeneous
one Jnana Reality, though all-full in all objects, is
yet distinct from them) and never affected by the
changes which such objects undergo. Atma-Jnana
which is without the vain Sankalpas, name,
destruction or heterogeneity is (to give a rough
description of it) as subtle as one-hundredth part of
the all- pervading Akasa. It is this which is dubbed
with different beneficent appellations of Atman
and others and which is the Jnana in Jnanis. It is
this which though manifesting itself as Ajnana
producing Samsara is yet non-dual in its nature
and is the Jnana which makes one to know his own
Self. It is this which, though it is the one Jnana
having none else to compare with it, yet manifests
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