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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
„Now hearken to the description of the great or
(true) renouncer. You should know that such an
intelligent person age will abandon, in toto the
stainless Dharma and Adharma, pleasures and
pains, birth and death. He will not have even a
scintilla of desires, doubts, actions, and certainties.
Oh Bhringisa, the Srutis also say that his heart will
be free from Dharma and Adharma, mental
thoughts and actions. He will also have rooted
away from his mind all thoughts of the visible
things.‟
So said Parameswara of the form of grace to Lord
Bhringisa in days of yore. Having developed
through practice this kind of vision over all, may
you, oh lotus-eyed Rama protect your subjects.
Brahmic reality alone is that which is ever shining,
has neither beginning nor end and is immaculate
and non-dual. Nought else is. Thus shall you
contemplate and being filled with bliss, perform all
actions, so that the stainless quiescence of mind
may be in you and thereby in all. The Jnanakasa
alone is which is Brahman, devoid of the impure
pains, the seed of all illusions, Paramatman the
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