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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
At these words of Vasistha, Rama remarked thus
„You were pleased to say that I should destroy the
desires arising from the ideation of I in actions
pursued. These words, when I ponder over them,
are too deep for me. I can rather destroy this body,
the causer than the Ahankaric conception. With the
annihilation of!, the body will perish like a tree
felled to its root.‟ Vasistha thereupon replied „Men
versed in the sacred lore state that there are two
paths by which the Ahankaric Vasanas can be
destroyed. Instead of thinking with certainty as we
do now we live for objects or the objects live for us;
or in the absence of these invaluable objects, the „I‟
does not exist or these objects do not exist in the
absence of I, one should, through pure enquiry,
differentiate himself (as separate) from the objects,
with the idea the I does not belong to the objects or
the objects do not belong to the I; and his mind
should give up all Vasanas with no faltering
certitude and should perform all things, as if in
sport. This is what is called Dhyeya-Tyaga (or the
renunciation of that fit to be imagined. Then
having destroyed the Vasanas and looking with an
equal vision over all, if one should abandon this
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