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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
in him, rendering cool even his very marrow and
he will be glorified everywhere. Samsaric illusions,
oh gracious Rama of large expanding eyes, will
never affect those painless wise person ages,
however much such illusions are productive of
great surprises, or make them oscillate ever with
their never- ceasing changes of birth and
destruction or generate many myriads of pleasures
and pains. Fie on those low-minded persons of the
world who do not long for and attain that Supreme
Principle which can be cognized through Jnana.
Vision only and wherein all accidents are
unknown.
Now hear the means through which persons cross
this ocean of existence of bondage replete with the
rubies of pains, arising through the conjunction of
some periods of time. (It is thus; who am „I‟ that
has the potentiality of getting the quiescence of
mind which will enable it to wade through this
ocean of fleshy existence? What is the nature of this
universe? Who is that supreme One sought after?
Of what avail are material enjoyments? Such a
discriminative enquiry is, according to the Vedas,
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