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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
Passing thus through the stages of darkness, light,
sleep, and Moha, the Muni at last reached the stage
of Nirvikalpa Samadhi when his mind enjoyed
quiescence for one moment (at least). With
freedom from all pains, he attained the real Jnana
shining everywhere as all forms, like water which
when clammed up fills up all the previously
unfilled spots. Through long practice and cognition
of his true Jnana, his mind became of the nature of
It, like gold converted into an ornament. Being
deprived of its attributes of hardness, it became
Chit (Consciousness) itself, like a pot amidst clay.
Being divested of all visions of objects, it contained
Consciousness proper, like a calm ocean without
waves. The Muni freed from all attractions towards
objects, became of the nature of Prana Akasa
pervading everywhere and being the substratum of
all the mundane egg. He was drowned, as in an
ocean of nectar, in the practical enjoyment of the
great bliss where the seer alone exists without the
visual or the sight. He reached that Jnana-state
which is above all and in which nothing but truth
exists and became the ocean of eternal Jnana and
the all- pervading Absolute Consciousness. The
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