Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
incomparably firm in your own Self. Whether you
mean to be a Karta (doer) or not, this path of
annihilation of your mind will be most beneficial to
you and will never generate the least of pains.
If you wish to be the Akarta (non-doer), then you
should conduct yourself according to the ways of
the world. As there is not the conception of
another, there should not exist the idea of
separateness in the heart. The moment the
conceptions of „mine‟, „I‟, „you‟ or „I did it‟, etc.
arise in one there is sorrow engendered in him.
Will persons be so foolish as to identify their self
with the body? Such a conception is tantamount to
(the raising up of) twenty one hells (in them). Even
with the visitation of dire pains (in the body), do
not confound the „I‟ with the body. The wise would
be as loth to identify their „I‟ with the body as
flesh-eaters are unwilling to taste dog‟s flesh. It is
only through the stain of the identification of ‟I‟
with the body that the true Jnana-vision does not
arise; but should the stain be dispelled at a
distance, then the Jnana light will shine
unobscured like a moon-light in the absence of the
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