Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
Then the third stage quite free from all attractions
will be reached by him, where he will rest like one
in a soft cushion of brand-new flowers. Such a
person, after mastering all the observances
inculcated by the Sastras, will spend his life in the
hearing of Tatwa-Jnana stories in the abode of the
noble Tapaswins and others. Broad slabs of stones
will be his abode and resting place. By virtue of the
control of his mind and the absence of attractions
towards objects of bliss, he will live a nomadic life
in the forest with an equal vision over all. Through
a study of Jnana-Sastras and the performance of
good Karmas, a true cognition of the Reality will
arise.
Those who have reached the third stage can be
divided under two heads in reference to their
enjoyments without any attraction therein. Now
mark well their divisions. They are termed the
ordinary and the special. Again, oh Rama, born of
the race of Manu, each of these has its two subdivisions.
The ordinary indifference is the idea of
non-association with objects such as I am neither
the actor, nor the enjoyer, nor the learning disciple
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