Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
from Samadhi state. Persons of Jnana mind will
always be in the Samadhi of true Nishta
(meditation), albeit engaged in worldly actions. Oh
liberal-minded brother, persons without full evenmindedness
will never be able to go into Samadhi,
even though they may comply with the formalities
of sitting in Padma posture and offeringsalutations
to Parabrahman. It is Atma-Jnana alone
which forming the Agni (or fire) to the fuel of
desires constitutes the noble Samadhi. If the mind,
being: destroyed through concentration, cognizes
Tatwa-Jnana, such a Janna is stated by the wise to
be Samdhi. The intelligence of the wise not bound
by illusion, though mindful of the worldly actions,
will not forget even for a moment their Atmic
Reality (eternal) like time. Like Vayu blowing
freely in every direction it wills to take, a Jnani s
intelligence will always follow the path of the
differenceless Atma-Jnana. The wise of equal
vision, who are en rapport with the partless
intelligence, having abandoned all conceptions of
duality which exist but for worldly purposes, can
be said to have attained the Brahmic State.
Therefore those intelligent men who do not waste
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