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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
which thinks that to be real which is not so.
Through this mind birth, death and dotage are
caused. As the fluctuating mind arises through its
gradual association with objects, births and deaths
also arise. It is only when the mind quits all
without any attraction or repulsion towards objects
that it will cease to exist. If thoughts are destroyed
through the extinction of Vasanas, then quiescence
will result and the mind s destruction will ensue. If
there is no thought of any worldly objects or of any
place, how can the mind exist (separate) in the void
Akasa? Therefore, Oh bountiful Rama, I think that
form exists in the mind, so long as the Vasanas are
coupled with it. Moreover the conception of the
heterogeneous objects in the heart through a
conception of their reality and the enjoyment of
pleasures therein can be said to be of the form of
the mind. How can the mind survive in those wise
who, being more immaculate than Akasa itself,
think that all the visibles do not form the subject of
Karmas to be indulged in?
It is said that the cognition by one of the Reality
after true discrimination that he is not in this world
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