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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
„what more dost you want? Why do you perform
this true Tapas on the hill side here?‟
The Muni exulted with joy like the bird Chataka at
the sable clouds high up in the sky, and then
poured forth praises, prostrations, and salutations
to Vishnu. Then looking at Vishnu of graceful
vision, he questioned Him thus. „I have known
vividly the nature of Maya, the result of Karma, as
you were pleased to show me. But I am yet
ignorant of Maya in its latent innate state. How
came this delusion to manifest itself as real?
Vishnu replied thus Oh Brahmin, this earth and
other things of the universe have for their
substratum the mind and do not exist at any period
apart from the mind. Almost all persons in this
world, walking in the path of this universe of
dreams, delusion and egoism look upon it as real
and enjoy it. It is only in Chitta (the flitting mind)
that the universe rests. Why should you be
surprised, if this mind of thine, which contains
(potentially) in itself the entire Universe, should
bring into objectivity your life of a Neecha (which
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