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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
trammels of the delusion of the longstanding births
and deaths, they will be the enjoyers of partless
bliss. Besides, desires, anger, pains, greed,
accidents, etc., full of Vasanas, will daily dwindle
into nothing.
Vasistha continued: Like a Brahmin who after
giving up his noble status, degrades himself into a
Sudra, Isa (the Lord) degrades himself into a Jiva.
The myriads of Jivas will, at every creation, shine
beyond number. Through the flutter of that causal
ideation, the Jivic Iswaras will be generated in
every stage (of evolution). But the cause is not here
(in this world). The Jivas that arise from Eswara
and flourish thereby, subject themselves to
repeated rebirths through the Karmas performed
by them. This, Rama, is the relationship of cause
and effect, (though there is no cause for the rise of
Jivas), yet existence and Karmas, are reciprocally
the cause of one another. All the Jivas arise,
without cause, out of the Brahmic State; yet, after
their rise, their Karmas are the cause of their
pleasures and pains. And Sankalpa arising from
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