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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
6. THE STORY OF THE HUNDRED RUDRAS
Summary: Having I shown that Jnana will arise,
even though a person is engaged in such actions as
wars, etc., the author proceeds to state in this story
that Jnana vision will enable one to cognize Atman
personally. „Again hearken to another story‟.
So said Vasistha to the valiant Rama and continued
„A Sannyasi (ascetic) living in a certain country was
a great Jnani, and able to go into Samadhi at his
will. Through along course of Samadhi, he had
reached such a stage as to objectivise all mental
impressions into real images- The Vedas say that
every thought has got its own reflected image. One
day he returned from Samadhi. And then a
thought arose in his mind that he should engage
himself sportively in the ordinary actions of the
work-a-day world. With the motion of the mind
(that he shall become another person), he at once
transformed himself into another. Then no thought
arose in him of rebecoming the Sannyasi (ascetic)
he was before. Like the analogy of a crow and the
Palmyra fruit, the Sannyasi became through his
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