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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
your mind ever surging through the Vasanas of
Ajnana in this world of objects replete with its
cause and effect and co-eternal with it, you then
give up even the Vasanas of body, then will the
stainless beneficent Principle be attained.‟ So
saying Muni Mandavya of great Tapas returned to
his own abode.
Thereafter the king of hunters withdrew into his
solitary crypt and there began through his subtle
intelligence to ever enquire into the origin of „I.‟ It
is rather ludicrous to apply the epithet „I‟ to this
body from head to foot. Let me see what this body
is. It is composed of flesh, bones, etc., and as such
is inert. Hence „I‟ is not this body. Again the ten
Indriyas are other than „I‟ (from the epithet of my
Indriyas) and are inert. Hence I am not the ten
Indriyas. If „I‟ is not this body with Indriyas, etc.,
then what remains is Jiva. Even this Jiva is known
by Pratyagatma. Therefore Jiva which is known by
Pratyagatma Chaitanya cannot be termed the
Atma-Tatwa. Hence I shall free myself from the
Jiva state. Shall I become „That‟ fit to be known?
That full Jnana which is immaculate and remains
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