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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
illuminated minds like yourself untinged with the
desires of the ever-agitating wealth, that this,
grand Truth will become self-evident. The disciple
who, in order to free himself from existence,
approaches, without the least doubt and under
great self-sacrifice, a Guru of powerful knowledge
should satisfy the above conditions. Just as in the
presence of a lamp, sun or flower, there is
produced light, day or odour respectively, so in the
presence of Chit, there arises this universe. Its mere
appearance will be the form of the universe; but it
really is not.
At these words of Vasistha, Rama remarked thus
„All the words of your holiness which are
unfathomable through their loftiness (of
conception), like the milky ocean cool and
immaculate, have struck surprise in my heart.
Through them, my mind has sometimes been
cleared of, and sometimes enveloped with, doubts,
like the autumnal clouds which produce
alternately heat and cold in an instant. Oh Muni of
great truth, how did these actions arise in Atma-
Jnana which is endless, one and manifold, of
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