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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
At these words of Vasistha, Rama questioned him
thus: „How can there remain a residue of Satva in
those whose minds have been destroyed, and who
have merged themselves in their divine inner
vision?‟To which Vasistha Muni, of high
intelligence, thus replied: „Like flowers and fruits
latent in a seed, a residue of Satva, the cause of
intelligence, rests always in the heart. Even in the
case of a Jivanmukta, whose mind is destroyed, the
strong body does not perish; but without being
affected by the pleasures or pains of enjoyments,
though moving in them, his mind will become
inured to them. Therefore, O Rama, this most
Divine lady Chudala gave up the Kumbha-Muni
form and entering (in a subtle form) into the
stainless consciousness (or mind) of the King,
devoid of beginning, middle or end, caused that
part of it to vibrate which she found had the
residue of pure Satva in it. Then she returned to
her stainless body, like a bird re turning to its
prison of a cage. Afterwards, as Kumbha-Muni,
sitting in a certain posture on the earth, she
chanted the Sam a- Veda songs, as if playing on the
Vina. Thereupon the Satvic intelligence, which
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