Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
approach those Jnanis who are not bitten by the
serpent of greed in the hole of their mind and
emitting the venom of love and hatred. Yama will
not approach those persons who have eradicated
the root of anger in the ocean of the body without
making the Vadava fire to spread itself without
making the waters of discrimination to dry up.
Yama will not approach those whose minds are not
inflamed by Kama (passion) but are crushed like
sesame seeds in an oil-press. Yama will not
approach those who attain quiescence in the
imperishable and immaculate Nirvanic Seat
without any pains through excessive meditation. It
is the stains abovementioned that form the germs
of existence. But they will not affect those great
minds that have become non-dual and without any
differences (of conception). Those pains which
arise through mental disease and produce all
illusions will not even go near that non-dual mind
divested of all differences. They will not come in
contact with that non-dual mind devoid of all
differences, wherein the heart-Akasa is not
obscured, and Raga and Dwesha (love and hatred)
thoughts are destroyed. They will not in the least
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