Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
worldly actions. Should both of these preserve a
cool mind, then there is no difference between
them. Such a coolness of the mind will generate all
the in calculable fruits of great Tapas. The mind of
one who is in this state will never be affected with
pains, though engaged in actions. In this
illuminated state, the serenity of his mind towards
externals can be compared to that of an idiot. But if
the mind of the idiot be deprived of all its vagaries
(or internal pains), then such a state might be
termed Samadhi. The difference between Jnanis
who retire into a forest and those who are amidst
excessive worldly actions is nothing. Both are
equal and will undoubtedly reach Moksha.
With the extinction of Vasanas, all actions
performed will be as if not done, like the mind of a
person who, when he is deeply engaged within,
does not hear the sounds uttered by bystanders.
But if the gross mind, though it has ceased to
perform all actions, has yet its Vasanas clinging to
it, then it performs actions in Swapna (the
dreaming I state) when the whole body is
paralysed, like persons falling headlong from a
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