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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
contact with his mind, his mind was rendered
steady. With this stainless mind, he thought:
'After I bring into control my mind, it is again
agitated by Prana and floats about like a dried leaf
tossed by wind. It then flits from one object to
another. Like a monkey jumping from tree to tree,
it hops about from one object to another. Having
known the five Jnanendriyas, the eyes, etc. as the
mere avenues of the mind and the generators of
Abhimana (identification with objects), I am the
one who sees through them all. Oh perishable
Indriyas why do you perturb yourselves in vain? I
am the one Lord of Consciousness and the witness
of all. I who am truly of supreme intelligence was,
when associated with these Indriyas, degraded as
if descending from Swarga to Patala. Jnana never
comes in close contact with the organs, like
serpents and wayfarers Brahmins and Chandalas
(outcastes). Oh mind which sets itself against the
spiritual world and goes begging in all the
spacious four quarters, of what avail are thine vain
efforts? Thou alone shaft dally in this world,
preserving thine equilibrium. It is wrong to
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