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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
2. THE STORY OF PUNNYA AND PAVANA
Summary: In this story it is sought to show that
spiritual experience arises after many births only
and that with great difficulty.
The non-dual Atma-Jnana will, if developed, cause
to perish Ajnana which is the cause of the growth
and increase of the poisonous plant called Moha
(delusion) and identifies the „I‟ with the body and
others, the seat of the sovereign sway of the
serpent of pains. Those who are acute enough to
always discern the unreality of this universe will,
like king Janaka, cognize through their subtle
intelligence the non-dual Paramartha (Reality) at
the proper time. But such cognition will not take
place through wealth, men, (religious) actions or
celestials. Those who are afraid of being born over
and over, should take refuge in their own efforts
alone. If with every day the base conception of the
differentiation of he, I, etc., be gradually destroyed,
then the expansive Jnana which is all this universe
will arise stainlessly. With true discrimination
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