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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
Jnana which brings about Kaivalya happiness
dawned directly in them. There is no other path to
destroy the dire re-birth of the pain-giving mind
bound by the cord of desires than Jnana. A
stainless mind without attractions, though engaged
in the worldly acts, will never be bound thereby. A
mind with attractions though engaged in
innumerable Tapas will ever be in bondage. A Jiva
which without internal craving (or attractions) is
prone to good actions alone, will never have the
characteristics of actor and enjoyer, whether it
performs external actions or not.
At this, Sri Rama asked thus, „What is meant by
attraction (association)? What is that attraction
which leads to Moksha? And what to bondage?
How is this bondage to be annihilated? To which
Vasistha replied thus „Belief in (the permanency of)
the body without discriminating between the body
and its occupant and contemplating I upon the
body alone is what is meant by attraction. Such a
course leads to bondage. The conception that all is
Atmic Reality and that there is nothing for one to
love or hate (in this world) is non-attraction. Such a
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