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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
family of the wise replete with enormous wealth,
good qualities and purity of mind and body) and
will unerringly follow the path of Jnana, since they
had already subjected themselves to a rigid course
of discipline.
As this universe is seen without anything special as
in the walking state by a Jnani in these three stages,
they can well be termed the waking state. It is
persons in these three stages that pass for Acharyas
to the work-a-day world. To the ignorant, they
appear like those who have attained Moksha and
are extolled. They instil spirit into the ignorant to
tread the path of Jnana. They will do only things fit
to be done, and omit to do things which ought not
to be done. They will act consistently with the
working of nature. Such men alone are the greatest
of men. Those only are the Supreme men who load
their lives according to Acharas (the religious
observances), the Sastraic injunctions and the non-
noble actions of the world with firmness.
In the first stage of matchless Jnana, the nature (or
qualities) of an Acharya will germinate; in the
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