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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
from their grave. How can we attribute enmity or
friendship to the intelligence in diverse forms
arising from the one Atman? If we begin to
enquire, as to who are in the tabernacle (of body)
which is nothing but a net work of bones filled
with flesh, blood and skin and which, though nonexistent,
deludes us with its existence as real, then
what remains is this „I.‟ Then contemplating still
further with the mind, we find through the
stainless Brahmic Vision gradually developed, that
neither you nor I nor Punya nor Pavana nor
anyone else exists but the one Jnana which then
shines alone. In the many Dwipas (islands) long
passed out of existence, the births you underwent
are incalculable. In the great Dwipa called Jambu,
you were born as a cuckoo, as beasts, clouds, hills,
trees, reptiles and birds; the series of births you
had in them and in each of those sub-divisions are
indeed indescribable. Such being the case, why do
you not now grieve over the deaths of those who
were related to you in those many incarnations?
Nay this is not all. Listen again to the repeated
births you had in other countries. In the countries
of Kosala, Dasarna, Poundra, Gurjara, Tushara,
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