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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
inseparable from Jivanmuktas like the wind and
atmosphere or the earth and odour. It is this divine
vision that the Trimurtis and other Devas attained
as well as Rishis Narada, etc., myself and others. It
is this Satta-Samanya, the abode of the world that
Uddhalaka lived in, as long as he liked, free from
all variegated states.
With the lapse of a long period, this Muni resolved
upon becoming a Videhamukta and abandoning
his body in the beautiful caves of Gandhamadana
hills. So he seated himself again in the beneficent
Padma posture. With his eye lids half open, he
blocked the front gate of the body and there by all
its nine internal avenues. Then he reduced through
his mind, organs and objects into one and
meditated upon his all-full Jnana as still as an
ocean without waves, having previously controlled
the speed of Pranavayu with his body and neck
erect and thrust the tip of his tongue below the
base of the uvula 93. His face began to radiate with
lustre with his eye and mind diverted from all
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This is called the Khechari Mudra
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