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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
the winds. After having destroyed the impure
mind through your pure mind like a tree felled by
an axe, may you be firmly seated in the supreme
Parama Pada (supreme state).
Having firmly convinced yourself of the illusory
character of the worldly actions, such as going and
returning, waking and sleeping, standing and
sitting, etc., abandon quite all the desires of your
heart. The ever-fluctuating mind goes after Jnana
through its natural Vasanas, like a cat following a
tiger through the flavour of its flesh. Again just as
through the intrepidity of a lion a cat feeds itself on
what it gets, so also the follower of the mind gets
hold of the sensual objects through its intelligence.
If the mind is thus engaged in the visibles, then it
will never be destroyed. Hence there arises no
freedom from bondage. But if the visibles are
removed, then destruction of the mind will ensue
and thereby Nirvana.
May you rest as firm rooted as Mahameru without
the conception of the difference of „I‟ and these
(objects). May you, after rendering your mind as
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