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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
though dreams upon dreams arise in it? What is
that Atom which, though penetrated within,
preserves the same nature like a plaintain stalk
which, when bored into, preserves the same form?
What is that non-differentiated primal atom which
expands itself into infinite small atoms of the
mundane egg, Akasa, the numberless egos, the
resplendent sun, Meru and other objects? To what
great mountain of the original formless atom, these
universes resemble a stone?‟
At these queries of Vetala, the resplendent
crowned king simply laughed. Listen, Rama, to the
replies made by the king.
The king answered „It is in the ever-dawning
Jnana- Sun, that all the universes shine. Compared
to the rays of this sun, all the universes are so
many atoms only. Through this much eulogised
Sun s light the universes shine. It is the whirlwind
of Brahman that reduces to dust, Kala (Time),
Akasa, fluctuation, Jnana and other existences, and
makes them shine in their true state. The allpervading
Brahman shines in its own nature,
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