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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
and the support ed. If either of them is slain, then
the other also will cease to exist. The destruction of
both will confer, on all, Moksha. So long as the
thoughts of one are not thoroughly destroyed
through persistent practice, he should ever be
concentrating his mind on one truth at a time.
Through such an un- intermittent practice, onepointedness
will accrue to the mind and instantly
all the hosts of thoughts will vanish.
Now listen, oh Rama, to the queries of the
powerful Vetala waking up in the Turya state, after
its long dream of births and deaths. So saying,
Vasistha continued thus: Sore pressed by hunger, a
Vetala living in the great Vindhya forest went to a
foreign country for prey. It was ever in the habit of
feasting itself upon the enormous meals of the
wise. In spite of its suffering from the effects of
gastric fire within, it would never make as its prey
any human being without sufficient reasons. Will
ever the great deviate from the path of rectitude?
This Vetala left its forest for the country to find out
its prey of a human being, after discriminating
between a spiritual minded being and his reverse.
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