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

performance of actions without attachment to<br />

results, her mind ripened and became the<br />

receptacle of bliss. Then through the unceasing<br />

practices which developed in her, Atmic reality<br />

that true realisation of certainty which is beyond<br />

all <strong>com</strong>pare and cannot be estimated by any except<br />

one s self became to her direct cognition, and she<br />

shone with a radiant spiritual light 129 and became<br />

like a soft tendril bearing flowers.<br />

Now it came to pass that King Sikhidwaja, noticing<br />

with pleasure the glorious effulgence that shone<br />

more and more round the form of his wife, and<br />

marvelling to see a glory which surpassed any he<br />

had seen before, gave utterance to the following<br />

words:<br />

„How is it, O beloved one, that you now appear<br />

radiant with so much beauty, as if your youth had<br />

returned to you, as if you had be<strong>com</strong>e as it were<br />

the prototype of beauty, had quaffed divine nectar<br />

129 This corroborates the fact that when one be<strong>com</strong>es a Brahma-jnani, a<br />

Tejas or spiritual glory arises in him.<br />

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