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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
Konkanas, Kaikeya and Salwa, you were born as
King, monkey, vermin, stag, water- crow, birds,
serpent, ass and others. Now then why do you not
bewail over the death of those departed relatives
also whom you created then through your
Vasanas? In lieu of counting the parents of many
individuals born on this earth, we may rather
reckon the number of dried leaves withering from
a large forest tree which rears its head aloft in the
skies. Therefore there are no grounds for you, my
boy, to grieve. Without a faltering heart may you,
my boy, attain without any obstacles your Atmic
Reality which is without existence or nonexistence,
birth or death and cognize it firmly
through your mind. Having freed yourself from all
pains and Ajnana, may you cognize, through your
intelligence, your Atmic Reality per se. In that
spiritual introvision, many kinds of desires will
spring to retard your progress. Free yourself from
their trammels, make the lotus of your heart as
pure as possible and cognise through your (higher)
mind your own Reality. Then all illusions will
vanish completely and you, my brother, will attain
Nirvanic Bliss‟ so said Vasistha to Sri Rama.
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