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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
throw aside all shackles of bodies and merge into
the Absolute fontal Bliss. As, at the end of every
Prakarana in this work, there is a chapter which
summarizes the subjects dealt with in it, this
Prakarana closes with a chapter called Nirvana
Prakarana, wherein are described the seven states
of Jnana, the seven states of Ajnana having been
given out in a previous chapter.
As regards the age of this work, we leave it to
competent authorities to theorize as best as they
may. The events recorded herein should have
occurred in Treta Yuga, when Rama incarnated.
But in the initiation of Rama by Vasistha as
recorded in this work, we find the story of Arjuna
introduced herein. Is it not an anachronism, some
may ask? We shall find this objection will vanish
into thin air if we bear in our mind the fact that
nature is cycling round and round and is not a
sealed book to our ancients. Every recurrence of
the Yugas brings with it its own Vyasas, Ramas
and others. Therefore before the divine vision of
our omniscient Rishis, all the events, past as well as
future, march in one procession as recorded in the
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