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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
light and darkness as well as day and night and the
three Sandhyas (junction-periods) and which
therefore occupies the neutral centre between the
pairs. It alone is the asylum of all who have
conquered all the paraphernalia of, and inclination
towards, Samsara like Akasa, the receptacle of
Vayu, etc., which takes in odor. Those great and
transcendental personages who, having the Akasa
as their body, live in Brahmic bliss without pain or
Tamas or Rajas are truly saints who have
annihilated their minds.
Here Rama interrupted him thus: What is the seed
of this Maya ever increasing I like a vine? What is
its seed? What the seed of this seed? And what is
the seed of the last one? Please throw light upon ail
these four seeds. Vasistha answered: This body is
the seed from which generates the sprout of
pleasures and pains, giving rise to the evergyrating
creeper of Samsara. The cause of this seed
of body is the mind which, following the track of
desires, is the receptacle of the jewel of pains
arising from births and deaths. It is through the
mind that the hosts of bodies which do not exist,
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