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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
„May you be in the partless Brahmic seat, having
destroyed all the impure Sankalpas to prevent even
the dawn of the (lower mind) and thus to be in the
(Mauna) silence of Sushupti.‟ So said Vasishta
when Sri Rama questioned him thus: What is
meant by the (Mauna) silence of (Vak) Speech,
organs and (Kashta) body as well as that of
Sushupti?
To which the Muni replied thus: There are two
kinds of Munis, ordinary and Supreme; the former
is called the (Kashta) bodily Tapaswin and the
latter is called a Jivanmukta. Oh protector of the
earth, the wise say that under the former head
come those persons, who, developing- a firm will
through the process of Pranayama, control their
organs through the Hatha yogic method. But those,
who, having known the true nature of the
universe, contemplate upon Atman within
themselves, and are quiescent within though
moving with the world in their actions are the pure
Jivanmuktas. Therefore the true Mauna (silence) is
that exalted state in which the mind of a Muni
rests. The control of speech is Vak-Mauna, the
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