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

seat of Brahman which remains after all else is<br />

over, which confers the divine wealth of bliss, and<br />

which is the grandest and the most transcendental<br />

of all. Oh, I have been able to ac quire the<br />

otherwise unattainable heavenly nectar of great<br />

bliss, and move in the <strong>com</strong>pany of those great<br />

souls of powerful Brahmajnana through the<br />

blessing of association with your grace. How was it<br />

not possible for me, your humble servant, to attain<br />

this immeasurable supreme nectar before?‟<br />

Kumbha-Muni said: It is only when there is<br />

quiescence in the mind and an indifference in it<br />

towards all enjoyments, and when the powerful<br />

Indriyas (organs) are turned inwards and the<br />

Ajnana of the mind is destroyed, that all the noble<br />

words of the wise guru will infiltrate and spread in<br />

the mind of the disciple like the scarlet water of the<br />

forest impinging on a perfectly white cloth.<br />

Otherwise such words will drop down like the<br />

impurities of the body or the fruits of a tree. The<br />

mere doubt arising in one s mind of the existence<br />

of duality or non-duality in this world betrays<br />

Ajnana; the removal constitutes Jnana. It (Jnana)<br />

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