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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
qualities of a Jivanmukta and an Atman Jnani. The
good qualities of these great persons who walk in
this amiable path will attract all persons unto
themselves, like the melodious tunes of a bamboo
flute enrapturing the hearts of even cows. Now to
those persons who, through these qualities, are
able to arrest all at once the seven births.
There are two 70 kinds of paths leading to Moksha.
Now hearken to them. If one should, without the
least fail, follow the path laid down by an Acharya,
delusion will wear away from him little by little
and emancipation will result, either in the very
birth of his initiation by his guru or in some
succeeding births. The other path is where the
mind, being slightly fortified with a stainless
spontaneous knowledge, ceaselessly meditates
upon- it; and then there alights true Jnana in it, like
a fruit falling from above unexpectedly. Now listen
attentively to a story that I shall now relate to you,
in which Tatwa-Jnana arose in an individual like a
70 Of the two paths to Jnana, a person is guided by a Guru in one, and in
the other, he is guided by himself.
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