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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
burden of the body, then such an extinction of
Vasanas constitutes the stainless Jneya-Tyaga (or the
renunciation of the Known). Those only are the
wise who have given up all the Vasanas which
have concreted themselves into the tangible shape
of the body of Ahankara.
Those resolute persons who come under the first
category are called Jivanmuktas; while those who
come, under the second heading, after destroying
to the root all Vasanas and actions and rendering
their mind completely quiescent, are called
Videhamuktas. Oh victorious Rama, these two
kinds of renunciation resemble one another. They
pertain to Jivanmuktas and Videhamuktas
respectively. They lead one to Brahman, free him
from the trammels of pains and enable him to
attain Moksha.
Those whose minds do neither sink nor float
amidst the pleasures or pains by which they are
environed are Jivanmuktas. Those whose minds
have not experienced (or are not affected in this life
by) exultation, fear, anger, poverty, stains or pains
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