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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
world of perceptions, in order that you may be of
the nature of Jnana. Though surrounded by
pleasurable or painful objects to disturb your
equilibrium of mind, may you be immovable as a
rock, receiving all things equally. So long as you
free yourself from the delusions of the endless
births, do not, oh mountain-like Rama endeavour
to attain pleasures or pains, bliss or non-bliss
through your efforts. Such kinds of efforts will
enable you to get the endless Brahmic seat. One
whose intelligence is filled with the cool ambrosia,
like the moon replete with nectarine rays, will
enjoy bliss. Having under stood first the Be-ness
(Principle) of all the worlds, he is in Moksha,
performing actions though not really performing
them.
Here Rama queried Vasistha thus: What are the
means by which the seven Jnana states can be
cognized? And what are the characteristics of those
Jnanis who have cognized them? To which
Vasistha replied thus: There are two classes of Jivas
(or egos), those that get under the yoke of
(material) enjoyments and that do not do so. Now
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