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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
as there is the sense of the illusory enjoyment in
this legerdemain of the world, so long will the false
creations of the mind, etc. will not wear off. In fact
neither Chitta nor Maya nor Manas nor Jiva exists;
but the effulgent Brahman alone is, like one vast
ocean ebbing and falling. As long as this „I‟ which
identifies itself with this body of nine avenues has
the conception of reality in the visibles of this
universe, so long will the illusions of Chitta, etc.,
exist. So long as there are desires in objects with
the idea, „They are mine, etc.‟, so long will the
illusions of Chitta, etc., exist. If, oh cloud-coloured
Rama, through the stainless internal, „That‟, the
light straw of the three universes be sacrificed in
the fire of Jnana, then the illusions of Chitta and
others will never approach him. Those who,
contemplating upon the all-pervading Self which is
the one partless Jnana without this or that limit and
without Sankalpas, regard without any duplicity of
mind as friends even those who are hired as
assassins to kill them those only can be said to have
truly worshipped their immaculate Atman. Like a
cataract which washes away the trees on its banks,
those who have destroyed material desires and the
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