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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
this world. It is only to control this heterogeneous
mind, that intelligent Yogis perform Pranayama
through the control of Prana, Dhyana
(contemplation), medicines or skill. The wise say
that the beneficent control of Prana leads to that of
the mind and causes, in one, equality of vision over
all. It generates happiness and will not in the least
allow sensual objects to arise in the mind.
Now as to the second seed of the mind which
illuminates all objects and being coupled with
Vasanas enjoys externally the objects. Vasanas are
the ignorance which enslaves us in sensual objects,
after giving up true discrimination of the past and
hereafter, arising through firm determination. The
Atman (or ego) subjecting itself to the clutches of
Vasanas which make it to be transformed into the
object it sees to the exclusion of others, fancies that
object to be real and is deluded in the same.
Through the frenzy created by the extreme velocity
(or vibrations) of the Vasanas, it sees all things in
the same illusory light. To define this mind clearly;
it can be stated to be the impure visibles; or the
identification of I‟ with that which is not „I‟, or that
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