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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
are of quiescent mind and not tainted with
Ahankara can well be termed a forest. Persons who
stroll through a bazaar street without any longing
for the things therein are like those who have
sojourned therein. Similarly to persons in full
spiritual beatitude, cities and wood will constitute
no difference. Though successively performing the
functions of sleeping, waking, reading, going, etc.,
those who consider as forest their permanent
abode, city and country through their spiritual
introvision, are the most intelligent ones. Through
this stainless introvision, all will become (to them)
Jnanakasa itself. Oh you, equal unto Prana itself, if
your mind becomes cool and your heart full, then
the universe too will be calm.
Should the mind wax warm with the illusions (of
the world), then the universe too will appear burnt
by the blaze as of a forest fire. In all Jivas, whatever
arises internally will manifest itself externally. The
ambrosial Swarga-loka, earth, Vayu, Akasa,
mountains, rivers, quarters and other objects
surrounding us are so many external
manifestations of the Antahkarana (the lower
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