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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
immaculate Jivanmuktas would never be
disconcerted, even should the sun grow cold or the
moon turn dark or the fire begin to burn with its
flames downwards.
All things visible are Jnana only. Knowing all
things truly as they are, such Jivanmuktas never
marvel at out-of-the-way occurrences. This world
appears diversified because of the fluctuations of
the mind, like a row of pearls appearing on a
bunch of peacock feathers when waved in the
atmosphere above, or like innumerable eddies
arising in water through undulations in it.
At this Rama questioned Vasistha: Through what
does the mind fluctuate? Through what will it not
fluctuate? What is the path (or means) to control it?
Vasistha replied: The fluctuation of the mind is
associated with the mind itself (or is an attribute of
it), like oil in sesame seed or whiteness in snow.
There are two paths to destroy this fluctuation,
namely Yoga and Jnana. Yoga is that which makes
the actions of the mind integrated (or makes the
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