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LAGHU <strong>YOGA</strong> VASISTHA<br />

This Atma-Jnana is known only through one s self<br />

and not through another. I have now known Atma-<br />

Jnana, which can be done only after long eons of<br />

time. Through the non-cognition of the allpervading<br />

nature of the Supreme Consciousness,<br />

there arose in us the six organs, but if that true Chit<br />

is thoroughly cognised, then Manas and the others<br />

are found to be quite illusory. The immeasurable<br />

Plenum of Jnana alone truly is. This Jnana is also<br />

called Maha. This self-light that is stainless,<br />

without suffering, inequality or egoism, goes also<br />

by the appellations of Parabrahman or Param, and<br />

shines everywhere at the same time, being eternal,<br />

all- pure and all-potent.‟<br />

And thus it happened that through her divine<br />

introvision, the queen enjoyed daily the<br />

consciousness of the reality of Atman, and<br />

remained steadfast in that condition. Also through<br />

the strict performance of her daily actions, without<br />

the least longing after their fruits, all her desires<br />

and the tendency of her mind towards objects<br />

entirely ceased nor was she troubled by the pairs of<br />

opposites, or desires, or hatred. Thus in the<br />

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