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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
observance of Yama 89 and Niyama, an unsullied
discrimination set in upon Uddalaka‟s mind and
he began to meditate thus.
„What is that seat which is the safe asylum without
pain? What is that imperishable state without the
pang of re-births? Is it not this that above all
should be soon sought after? When shall I be able
to secure and rest for a long time in that non-dual
immaculate Brahmic seat without any Sankalpa of
the mind, like clouds in the top of Mahameru?
When shall I be able to rid my mind of the wealth
of material enjoyments, which mind after having
exhausted one yet craves for another in an agitated
state? When shall I be able to cross, through the
instrumentality of the vessel of my intelligence,
this ocean of my desires with its seething billows of
the mind with its egoism? I shall therefore ever
exult in the seat of the Light within my heart
without actions or inactions, attractions or
repulsions towards objects. I shall therefore remain
89 Yama and Nyama or forbearance and religious observance are the
two first parts of Yoga
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