Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
non-attraction arises in the body of those
Jivanmuktas who have been freed from all pains.
That state of non-attraction of the mind when
neither I nor any other self exists for it and when,
at its will, it doffs or dons the pleasures of the
world, should be known as the path leading to
Moksha. Such persons will court neither actions
nor in actions; abdicating all fruits of actions, they
do not care which of the above two courses they
will adopt. The wise say that these are persons
without attractions. Know also that there is no
attraction in one, if he renounces all fruits of
actions through the endeavours of the mind and
not through the (abdication of the) Karmas
themselves. Through it, all the stains of the evergrowing
actions will cease and Moksha will be
gained. It is through this attraction that the long
chain of births as worms, bees, etc., has been
undergone, disappearing at every stage like
bubbles on the surface of the ocean.
Attraction is two-fold. One is called Vandhya (fruit
less) and the other is called Avandhya (fruitful).
The former pertains to the ignorant while the latter
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