Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
falling into terrible and murderous hell and made
me reach Moksha soon, I salute you with true love.
May you live long. Oh brothers and friends of all
Jiva-s, I part from you all. May you prosper.'
So saying, he took farewell of them all and gave up
completely his mind and the three kinds of Eshanas
(desire for wealth, son and wife). Reaching the
Jnana Bhumi (Jnana state), he uttered softly
Pranava and gave up all the objects which arose
through Sankalpa, external and internal, gross and
subtle, in all the three worlds. Through the threadlike
elongated sound at the end of Pranava, he
dispelled all sensual objects, like wind blowing
away odour. Darkness appeared before him and
then disappeared with light, as if darkness was
inseparable from Akasa. Light arose only to share
the same fate and disappear in a moment. Then at
last, both darkness and light vanished. Remaining
steadily in this state, he renounced the mind as if it
were a piece of straw. Being filled with Jnana, his
consciousness was like that of a child and he
annihilated thought for about a quarter of a minute
or half a minute. He was in the Jnana-state, like
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