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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
always follow the Satvic path. Having given up all
that tends to the attainment of Swarga (heavenly
bliss), may you become that self-light which shines
equally in all. This is your real nature. Without
hankering after paltry terrestrial things, and
causing your mind to fluctuate thereby, may you
be immovable as a rock. Those who have no
(lower) mind drive away re-births to a great
distance from them. In this spacious earth, no pains
will affect them. A mind becomes a prey to fear
through its fluctuation. Having mingled motion
and non-motion into one, and destroyed
fluctuation (of mind), may you be one with Jnana‟.
The King then said: How is this identification to be
brought about? How are Motion and non-Motion
to be commingled into one? And how am I to reach
that state? Kumbha-Muni continued: Like the
waters of an ocean, all the Universes are nothing
but the non-dual Chinmatra (Absolute
Consciousness). When this Chinmatra draws unto
itself intelligence, then there is a fluctuation
caused, like the wide waters moved by great
waves. But the ignorant without true Nishta
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