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LAGHU <strong>YOGA</strong> VASISTHA<br />

mental or bodily malady, incipient Moha (illusion)<br />

or dire pains, the cumbersomeness of the<br />

administration of regal justice or sharp adversity.<br />

They should go on worshipping Jnana, whether<br />

they enjoy stainless objects or abandon impure<br />

enjoyments.<br />

Enjoying with a sweet mind and a non-dual<br />

conception whatever objects one <strong>com</strong>es by and not<br />

longing for things inaccessible is Jnanaarchana (or<br />

the sprinkling of flowers, etc., to God). Unfailing<br />

worshippers of Jnana should regard pleasures and<br />

pains as of the nature of Jnana (and hence be<br />

indifferent to them). They should ever regard all<br />

forms and places as no other than Brahman and<br />

worship them as such. Like an ocean receiving<br />

unto itself innumerable rivers, Jnana will be a<br />

capacious reservoir of all enjoyments, neither<br />

hating any things nor longing after them. Without<br />

in anywise being affected by appearances, base or<br />

high, they should be engaged in worship, in order<br />

to free themselves from all dualities of conception<br />

arising from pleasures and pains in the differences<br />

of space, time and substances. These are the<br />

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