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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
Muni enjoyed Nirvanic bliss as long as he willed,
in this forest and amidst the company of the true
devotees of the Lord. He would spend in one
sitting days, months, and even years in deep
Samadhi and then would wake up. From that time
forward, he was ever engaged in Nirvikalpa
Samadhi, when his mind reached the non-dual
state. He was full everywhere, like the sun s rays
pervading the whole world. Through the long
unintermittent practice of merging in the Chit-
Samanya (or the one Universal Consciousness), he
reached the Satta-samanya (or the Universal
Beness). Uddalaka who was thus unlike the sun in
the month of Chaitra (April May) appearing and
disappearing in this world, became of a quiescent
mind through the attainment of Jivanmukti state.
Here Sri Rama interrupted Vasistha with the
question „what is Satta-Samanya?‟ To which
Vasistha replied:
“When one s mind being denuded of all false
thoughts, becomes of the nature of the allpervading
Chit-Samanya, and when all thoughts
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