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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
state of all-full Jnana and gradually becomes of the
nature of Jiva through the heterogeneous
conceptions of „I‟, „he,‟ ‟you,‟ etc. Then through its
conception of being caught in the meshes of
Samsara, it is subject to the dualities of Sankalpas
and Vikalpas, existence and non-existence,
attractions and repulsions, etc. Being thus in a
differentiated state, it, through its manifold
Sankalpas creating this body composed of eight
principles, is yet not its author. The very
fluctuation (or motion) in this state produces ever
the septenary graduated states of existence,
locomotive and fixed. Though its incomparable
Brahmic potency, it generates all and destroys
them again. Therefore this universe appears to be
everywhere through the Sankalpa of the mind like
the mirage manifesting itself in the unreal
Bhutakasa (or elemental Akasa).
Just as a person, through his excessive giddiness,
thinks himself to be another, the one impartite
Jnana appears to be unreal. Know, Oh Rama, that
to be the above Jnana which enables one to
perceive sound and other objects. Know also that
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