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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
Those stainless persons who are able to destroy
their mind through enquiry can be stated to have
truly realized the fruits of re-birth. Though slight,
this mind will rear up its thousand-headed hood
and think in diverse ways through unceasing
contemplation and enquiry. But the blooming tree
of right enquiry will root itself so firmly in this
pedestal of earth that no whirlwind of flitting
thoughts will ever be able to shake it from its stable
position. It is said by the great ones that those who
perform, like the brutes, the actions of walking and
standing, eating and sleeping and such like
without devoting their minds to any (spiritual)
enquiry are mere carcases. Through the
indestructible Jnana vision, you should either
through yourself or the aid of the exalted Ones be
ceaselessly engaged in the pursuit of this gentle
enquiry of, „who am I?‟ and „what is this universe?‟
It is this true enquiry alone that generates Jnana in
the path of Adhyatma science which concerns itself
with the discovery of truth without any doubt.
Through right enquiry, the object of enquiry can be
found like the essence in milk. One who has
equality of vision though the enjoyment of the final
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