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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
wisdom through (Vairagya) indifference to
worldly objects, and (Viveka) true discrimination.
Like us, he will attain the quiescent state of
Brahman after removing from his mind, all his
delusion (of doubts) through the many-sided
reasoning of the stainless Atmic enquiry. Rama s
mind will soon become full and then he will
perform sweetly and nobly all actions on behalf of
men.‟ While the Muni was saying this, Rama
appeared before the regal assembly and prostrated
himself at the feet of his father, and then at the feet
of Vasistha, Viswamitra, Brahmins well versed in
all departments of knowledge, and the teachers
imparting learning. Then having received the
prostrations of his inferiors, he recognised their
salutations with words of respect, and gestures of
the eye. On the king asking him to come over, and
sit on his lap in the throne, he merely spread his
folded cloth on the ground and sat on it without
going up to him. At which the king addressed him
thus „Oh My son of rare knowledge, why should
you, whom all should look up to as the seat of
eternal bliss, pine away thus with this body of rare
bloom emaciated, and your mind despondent even
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