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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
render Atmic enquiry habitual in you, then your
mind will be made subservient to your will and
will quit its state devoid of pains. In the eyes of a
cool mind free from its ups and downs, all worldly
actions appear (as trivial) to it, as the foot prints of
a cow to a huge elephant. Though trivial in the
eyes of the wise, these actions are insurmountable
(in the case of others). For is not the water enclosed
in the cow s footprint an ocean of incalculable area
to an old mosquito? The farther and farther you are
removed from the universe (in thought), the more
and more will the divine Light of Paramatman
radiate in you. As long as you are not free from (all
objects), so long will the true Principle not be
cognized by you. All visibles vanishing, the
residue will be Itself. Paramatmic Light will not
shine when the dualities of the mind are not
destroyed. How can Atmic Reality be cognized
when the homogeneity of gold and other objects is
not perceived? Therefore in order to attain Atman,
all longings for objects should cease. If all should
be given up free from all pains, then what remains
is the indestructible Moksha the supreme Brahmic
Seat. Oh famous king of hunters, if after destroying
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