Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
survives all. With the destruction of the mind, all
Vikalpas will notarise.
Then passing over to the fifth stage which will
come under Sushupti, he will remain in the
absolute certitude of non- duality, when all the
specialties of gunas will disappear. Such a person
will be with full Jnana shining in the heart and free
from the gloom of duality. He will ever remain in
the Sushupti state. He will always rejoice in the
possession of the matchless introvision. Though
engaged in external actions, he will ever be
quiescent, as if in a brown study. The sixth stage
being reached, the Turya state ensues, in which he
will be engaged in the practices appurtenant to that
stage, being completely divested of all the
regularly accrued Vasanas. Then he spends his
time mindless as the Kevala (one) free from all
ideas of differences or non-differences, „I‟ or non-I,
being or non-being. A Jiva in this state unaffected
by the knot of Ahankara and being neither with the
idea (of attaining) Nirvana nor without it, will be
within, like the steady and unflickering light of a
lamp. All the worldly creation having then no
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