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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
without the beneficent Tatwa jnana went in search
of Chinthamani, I meant only yourself. For,
although well-versed in all book- learning, you
have not yet developed an undisturbed
equilibrium of mind. What I intended by the story
of Chinthamani is this: In order to attain true
renunciation devoid of all pain and hypocrisy, you
have forsaken your regal office, your wife, and
other relatives, wherein there was the true
Chinthamani, and have betaken yourself to this
forest. While the true renunciation was developing
itself little by little in you although in the world,
your mind was led astray by undue zeal to a
wrong conception of renunciation, and was
enveloped by that delusion as by a dark cloud
which obscures the sky.
This renunciation of yours is not the true one,
generating real happiness, which you lost track of,
because you thought that this one of yours, if
persisted in sufficiently long, would, at length, give
rise to the true one, Having lost the gem of true
renunciation, which is in the proper path of life,
you have been misled by the false idea of the burnt
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