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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
alone is our highest goal. Through illumination
you have attained Moksha (emancipation). You
have levelled down your mind. May you be alone
as the great Mauni 134 after having acquired Divine
wealth and given up all the stains of the world. To
which the King questioned: Are not the actions of
Jivanmuktas performed through the mind? How
can things go on without the actions of the mind?
Please inform me on these points. Kumbha-Muni
replied: The mind is no other than the Vasanas
generating many re-births. If one knows his own
self, then there is no such fear of re-births. In those
that have cognized their Self without any obstacles,
the pure Vasanas with which they perform Karmas
will not entail upon them re-births. Such a mind is
called Satvic; but a mind without Jnana is generally
termed the Manas. A mind of Jnana is Satva itself,
while persons without Jnana will act in the path
dictated by their minds. The stainless and wise will
134 Mauni lit: one who is silent. Construing this literally, some Yogis in
India preserve taciturnity of speech. The author explains this word in
another part of this book to mean one who is free from the longings of
the world though moving in them; hence silent to the desires of the
world, and not in speech. The great Mauni is said to be Siva.
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