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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
aspect of the abovementioned Satva. Munis and
Siddhas under the Rajasic aspect of the same; the
Devas, Jivas and others under the Satvic aspect of
Satva. Out of this Avidya, is Vidya. This Vidya is
no other than the pure Satva of Avidya. Again, it is
stated, that Rajas and Tamas have each their three
divisions. The excessive Tama sic intelligence has
the Ajnana body of trees, etc.
Here on being questioned by Rama as to how
intelligence came to be embodied in trees and other
bodies and so subject to the trammels of excessive
Ajnana, Vasishta replied The Intelligence will be
(first) in that fierce state when it is without Manana
(meditation) or non-meditation and when it
occupies the intermediate state between Sat and
Asat. Then Jnana will be with the Puriashtaka body
dormant in the tree and will be inert like an idiot or
the blind without pains through Satta Matra. Again
Rama, with an eager desire to know, questioned
the Muni lovingly „Why not consider the state of
the fixed objects in the universe as Moksha itself,
inasmuch as the Intelligence in that state is in
harmony with Satta (Be-ness)?
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