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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
itself as identical with this universe of the nature of
Satta (Be-ness) with all its ocean of waves
encircling it. To the ignorant who have not known
their Atman, their ceaseless cycles of painsproducing
re-births reduce them to abject slavery
and suffering; but in those who have known their
true Self, the Jnana light will dawn and all objects
will be known as one. And through the enjoyment
of their own Self the three, actor, action and
instrument will shine (as one) in their Self. All that
they con template upon then, will be of that (Jnana)
essence alone. Those who are in enjoyment of (this)
immemorial wealth will ever be so.
Jnana is that in which are not found such acts as
dawning or setting, rising or standing or going to a
seat or returning from it and which may be said to
both exist and non-exist here at the same time. It is
in this that the stainless immaculate Atman is. It is
this Jnana which through its inherent allpervading
potency shines as this heterogeneous
universe in the above-mentioned manner. It is this
Jnana which through its power of becoming light
and darkness, and one and many, abandons its real
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