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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
sable clouds enveloping it. Through such a vision,
you will be able to land safely on the other
beautiful shore of the ocean of re-births. Having
contemplated upon the fact that you are not a
Karta (or doer) of any and that there are no such
differences as I, you and others, may you be the
Akarta with firm mind.
Then there is the other course. You may
contemplate thus „I am the Karta of ail. All the
countless hosts of objects are no other than myself.‟
With this contemplation you should rid your mind
of all fluctuation and make it immovable. If these
two methods do not commend themselves to you,
then you should contemplate upon yourself as
being neither of these two and as being that one
which is beyond speech and mind. You should rest
in that seat of your own Self which is the supreme
of all seats. The wise, who have cognized the nondual
supreme seat, do abide in their own Self. All
the enveloping Vasanas tend towards bondage; but
the extinction of them leads to Moksha. Having
first destroyed the impure Vasanas which do cling
to the mind associating with sound and other
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