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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
bondage is caused by the gloom of Ajnana, he has
destroyed this gloom.
It is the duty of those who wish to destroy rebirths,
to venerate such an exalted personage by
ever praising, saluting, worshipping, glorifying
and visiting him with entreaties. Not even Yajnas
or ablutions, Tapas or gifts will confer, on one, the
same effects as those derivable from the services
rendered with true love to those who have
glorified themselves in a state of never-fluctuating
Jnana, free from Samsaric-existence. „
Having thus taught him with true love, Brahma
now passing under the pseudonym of Manu,
departed to his effulgent mansion in Satya loka. Oh
Rama, with feet tinkling with bells, thus did the
famous King Ikshwaku cling fast to this kind of
vision and rest in the certitude of Atman.‟ So said
Vasistha.
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