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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
period and through what cause did it arise into
existence? Like a bird getting out of a snare, may I
get out of this universe of different gradations.
At these words Manu replied: „Very wonderful.
Your question arising through your excessive
discrimination and extending over long eons of
period will (when answered) destroy all Maya. All
these paltry universes do not exist, appearing like a
Gandharva city or the mirage in an oasis. It is only
Atmic Reality that ever is beyond the reach of the
organs, more subtle than Akasa, unlimited by
space and indestructible. All the visibles of objects
composed of the five elements are but reflections in
this great mirror of Atman. Some effulgent Saktis
(potencies) arising out of Brahman, commingled
together and became of the form of the mundane
egg. Some were of the form of Siva s hosts. Some
assumed the Deva-lokic form. Thus is the truth
about the manifesting Saktis. There is no such
thing as bondage or Moksha. Brahman alone is. It
is the eternal Jnana that shines as the world of
variegated objects, like waves differentiating the
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