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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
through seeming to exist, arise beyond number. It
enjoys these bodily objects as in dream.
This tree which is the painful mind which is
encircled by the creepers of worldly actions, there
are two seeds. Of them one is the motion of Prana
and the other is Vasanas. Know, oh king who is an
ornament to the solar race, that these are the four
seeds. The one all-pervading Jnana becomes the
visible Jnana through the motion of Prana. If this
Prana is checked from expanding in all directions,
then it will tend to one‟s (progress or) welfare. The
intelligence becomes tacked to the visibles through
desires. These visible things are a source of
perpetual harassment. If this solitary intelligence
be in the Sushupti state without ever returningfrom
it (to the lower states), then it alone is
Nirvana; it alone is Atman; it alone is the
immaculate Seat. There is none else besides it.
Therefore all rebirths will cease, if the longing for
sensual objects arising through Prana s fluctuation
and Vasanas be gradually minimised. The
excessive heterogeneity of thoughts constitutes the
mind. With such a mind alone, all persons live in
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