Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
are always in. If after having destroyed the
materially-minded Manas through the
discriminative (or higher) Manas, one does not
visit his Atmic Principle, never will the Samsaric
pains cease. With the extinction of the mind, bliss
will arise and then Atma Jnana shines.
To illustrate this experience, I will narrate to you,
Oh sweet flower of your (namely solar) race, a
story. So said Vasistha to Sri Rama and then
continued: „Two Munis, sons of Muni Atri of great
Tapas, lived in the hermitage of on the hills of
Sahya. They went by the appellations of Bhasa and
Vilasa and were very friendly towards one
another, which good feelings waxed day by day.
„Their minds were so united with one another, as if
they were off shoots of one and the same trunk.
With the death of their parents, they sorrowfully
went through all the necessary obsequies. Then
grief-struck and in great tears through their mental
bondage, they bid adieu to one another and parted
in different directions. After they had live for a
long time in the woods and emaciated their bodies
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