Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
is the ornament of all those who have cognized the
Atma-Tatwa. It is this latter which generates Atma-
Jnana and discrimination and through them arrests
re-births which gradually arose in long eons of
time. The former brings on the ever-recurrent
cycles of existence in this world through the
absence of Janna and the devotion to worldly
objects. Know, my son, clearly the true nature of
the two kinds of attractions. Vishnu, wearing
discus and conch, protects through his grace all the
universes without in the least being disconcerted
by the manifold actions done by him through his
Avandhya attraction. Similarly are Siddhas of true
Jnana, the protectors of the earth, by sporting on
this earth through the above attraction. The mind,
mistaking- thing s bad for good and attracted by
the glossy enjoyments, wallows in them, like a
vulture preying upon a carrion; To those who are
immersed in the evils of Vandhya attractions, all
the hells are their dwelling places. With this fuel of
Vandhya attractions, they feed the flames therein.
But when the Jnana-vision of one is diverted from
the visibles of Maya and the mind is divested of all
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