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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
Vasistha continued: O Rama of exquisite beauty,
again listen to another story. There is a glorious
huge granite rock which is impartite, thickset, soft
and endless in its dimensions. Out of it, have
lotuses beyond number risen and bloomed. Their
leaves are tacked on, one to another and close-set.
Some are visible and some invisible; some became
the higher ones and some, the lower. Some are firm
in their own state. Innumerable are the shells
cropping up in the middle of these lotuses having
no root. Discuses also grow up in great numbers
betwixt the lotuses. Here Rama remarked that he
observed one such huge granite in the rock of
Salagrama 120 whereon Vishnu stood.
The Muni continued: The granite I referred to is
not one that you have ever witnessed. I applied the
word granite to the Chit in the heart in which are
the different states of all the worlds. The granite is
no other than the Jnana in the heart containing the
worlds which are one and yet many. In this nondual
and obdurate Jnana-rock are the hosts of
120 A kind of sacred stone said to be typical of Vishnu and found |in the
river Gandaki.
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