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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
Tapaswin was in a state akin to that of a Mauni 143.
A warlike hunter, who was a veteran in archery
approached this Muni, and addressed him thus:
„Through the infliction of my arrows breathing fire,
a stag ran up to this place. Will you please tell me
where it fled to?‟To which the stainless Tapaswin
replied thus: Oh person of good qualities, we are
only a band of Tapaswins, tenanting this forest,
having equal vision over all. We never involve
ourselves in the impure Ahankara prompting men
to worldly actions. Is it not the mind that associates
itself with the actions of the organs in objects? It is
long since the mind of the form of Ahankara left
me truly and completely. I now know nothing of
the waking, dreaming, or the sleepless dreaming
states. I am now become of the Turya state. All the
diverse visibles do not exist in the pure Turya
state.‟ The hunter without understanding the
disquisitions of the Muni quitted that place.
Therefore please listen to me attentively. There is
no state other than Turya; Jnana divested of all its
143 A person engaged in a vow of silence.
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