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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
Atman. After contemplating upon the worlds as
the Paramakasa and freeing yourself from all de
sires, you shall be a Jivanmukta of great bliss
accoutred with the panoply of Brahman. After
destroying the idea of I, may you contemplate
upon all objects through the idea of Abhava (nonexistence)
as formless, without attraction and as
Chit and the quiescent. The mere conception of
differentiation that this is good or that is bad, will
be the seed of a series of pains. Should this seed be
burnt up by the fire of equal vision, then where
will be the room for generation of pains? Gently
wear, through diverse human efforts, the sword of
Abhava (non-existence) in you.‟
Oh King Ikshwaku wearing a garland in this dire
forest of Karmas performed through your mind,
sever all (differentia ted thoughts) through
Abhava, attain the supreme seat and being filled
with discrimination through the abandoning of
Karmas, be immovably seated in that state. Only
he who, having merged within himself all the
variegated differences of the universe and having
crossed all the variety of thoughts, is free from the
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