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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
Ahankara manifests itself as the impure Buddhi
leading to certain knowledge. Then this Buddhi
suffused with illusions becomes the Manas of
thought. This Manas, full of fancies, becomes
gradually the Indriyas (or organs). It is these ten
Indriyas of hand, etc., that are termed this body of
flesh. Thus it is that the Jiva through its association
(with the universe), gradually de bases itself, being
bound by the cord of Sankalpas and enmeshed in
the snare of pains. Thus is the mind, which was
originally the one reality itself, bound by desires
through its Ahankara like worms caught in their
own chrysalides. Through the Tanmatras
(rudimentary properties) produced by itself, it is
bound by the snare of its own internal (mental)
actions and will ever be afflicted at heart like an
undaunted male lion in a forest bound in fetters.
Thus has the one principle been dubbed by the
great ones with different appellations of Manas,
Buddhi, Jnana, Karmas, Ahankara, Yatana
(suffering) bodies, Prakriti, Maya, the base Mala
(impurity), Karma, Bondage, Chitta, Avidya,
desires and others.
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