Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
May you, Oh Rama, be immovable like an ocean
without foams or waves. Listen attentively to what
I am now going to give out to you. In the case of
the stainless enquirers after Atman, there are four
kinds of certitudes. The first kind is that where the
„I‟ identifies itself with this body from head to foot
and thinks itself to be no other than the one
generated by the parent. As this idea is not real,
this certitude leads to dire bondage. The second
kind of certitude arises when the „I‟ finds itself to
be above and other than all (gross) objects and to
be more subtle than the tail end of paddy. This
certitude when attained leads to Moksha and arises
in the case of the wise. The direct cognition within,
without doubt, that all the universes are no other
than the modes or aspects of I and that the I is
indestructible is the third kind of certitude. This is
the Moksha lacking nothing. The fourth kind of
certitude arises when the perishable universe and
the knower are cognized to be unreal and all the IV
ever are, like the Akasa pervading everywhere.
This is the incomparable and supreme Moksha. Of
these, the first kind of certitude is ever associated
with bondage generating Trishna. But the other
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