Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
from the pleasures or pains of enjoyments becomes
of a high intelligence and merges into Atman and
enjoys the beatitude there, then to the certitude of
such a being, the supreme Moksha will ensue. Such
a person is a Jivanmukta, no matter whether he
involves himself in many actions or not, or
whether he is a householder or an ascetic, or
whether he is disembodied or embodied. Such a
sturdy person will never droop in spirit, since he is
convinced that he neither dies nor lives, neither
exists nor non-exists, neither is one nor another.
Such a sturdy person, will never be afflicted in
mind, being without grayness or desires or mind
or egoism or any such and never clinging to any.
Such a person being without the three gunas, birth
and death and being a pure person and a Jnani of
eternal quiescence and equal vision, will not in the
least be afflicted. Such a person knowing that he is
that which pervades all things such as straw,
Akasa, Sun, Devas, Nagas or men, will never give
way to despondency of heart. Those who have
cognized through enquiry that Chit
(consciousness) pervades everywhere in the world,
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