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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
in Nirvikalpa Samadhi as immovable as a rock in
the caves of a mountain, having merged in Atman
without any Sankalpas. When shall I, through my
one pointed and deep concentrated) Dhyana
(meditation), become oblivious of a bevy of birds
building their nests on my head with the hair on it
and inhabiting it?‟
Thus did Uddhalaka contemplate in his mind and
be coming ecstatic within, resolved upon the
mastery of Brahma Dhyana. But the monkey of his
mind perched speedily from one branch to another
of sensual objects; and therefore he was not able to
master Samadhi which lands one in the ecstatic
realm of Reality. In forests, he roamed without any
settled mind: at another time being freed from all
external vision, his mischievous mind went into
Samadhi with great difficulty. Thus was he
whirling his days in various ways in the
mountains. That cave 90 in which no creature exists
and which is hard to be reached by all is called the
seat of Moksha. Into such a cave did the Muni
90 Viz., the cave of the heart
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