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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
(which here do stand for the mind as compared
above) do each die through sound, touch, form,
taste and odour respectively. But if you are
afflicted with all the five combined together, then
where is true bliss to you? In order to bind you, the
Vasanas are the woven net. Oh you impure mind,
if these Vasanas of objects are mastered, then you
have scored a tremendous victory. What for do I
address you thus r In those wise persons in whom
Atma- Jnana enquiry is fully developed, there
exists not the (lower) mind. How is it possible for
the all-pervading eternal Jnana, subtle as it is, to
exist in the mind? Can an elephant enter a Bilva
fruit? Notwithstanding the analysis and
examination in diverse ways of this body from top
to toe, k I does not pertain to this body. The
ideation of I pervades everywhere. I shall look
upon this universe as the supreme Jnana itself,
pervading all the quarters, being invisible without
fluctuation and self shining. In that Jnana, I do not
find names or forms, dualities or non-dualities,
smallness or greatness or any other characteristics.
As I am myself the true Jnana, you alone, oh mind
of mine, that have generated all differences in this
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