Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
mistake thee for Jnana. True Jnana is never found
to be in company with a vagrant mind. Oh
perverse intelligence which, through Ahankara,
confounds "I" with objects, it is really absurd to
apply the epithet “bliss” to thee. Destroy the sense
of separateness arising from the delusion of
Ahankara. Thy real nature is above all inquiry.
Like darkness disappearing before the sun, thou
art destroyed through spiritual inquiry. As you
were invisible and art now without form, thou wilt
also disappear in the future (invisibly). Oh mind,
the end to which you aspire now is a grand one
indeed. With divine grace, thou wilt be suffused
with bliss, and reaching a quiescent state, will revel
in the blissful Turya state of my Atmic Reality.'
With this inquiry, Veethahavya firmly controlled
his mind, without being in the least agitated by the
senses. Like flames which have consumed the fuel
and are absorbed in themselves, Prana gradually
merged into itself. With his subtle vision at the tip
of his nose, his eyes began to bloom partially, lotus
like. He then passed 300 years in Samadhi as in a
moment, with his head, neck, body and limbs
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