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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
tender calf, yet you will not complete the true
abnegation. But if you, O King, will but give up
that which is the cause of motion in this body, and
which yields the seed of all births and Karmas,
then true renunciation will be made. This is the
unqualified truth.
Then the King asked the Muni to give out the
means by which that which is the cause of the
motion of the body might be avoided. Thereupon
the Muni of transcendent qualities replied thus:
The wise say that the mind (manas) which,
through its Sankalpa passes under the different
appellations of Jiva and Prana, is the cause of
attachment to delusive objects, and is distinct from
the beneficent Non-jada and Jada (the inert). At the
same time it is said that this Chitta (the flitting
mind), forms the universe as well as the bondage.
It is this mind which is the germ of all Karmas of
existence and daily agitates this body of ours like a
tree when swayed by the wind. Therefore true
renunciation, O King, lies in the abnegation of the
mind- It is this which leads to Brahmic bliss. All
other renunciations cause us sufferings. If, after
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