Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
externals or internals, shines all-full both inside
and outside through Brahmic vision, like a pot
filled to the brim in the midst of the ocean seething
with waves. This personage, though he, to all
appearances, seems to have everything is really
with nothing. Having solitarily passed this sixth
stage, the Jivanmukta reaches the seventh stage
alone. It is in this seventh stage that disembodied
salvation is attained. Thus is the final stage of the
supreme Jnana reached, which is beyond al
description.
With regard to this seventh stage of Videha-Mukti,
diverse religionists ascribe different names to this
stage, Some say it is Paramatma, some hold it to be
a void; some hold it to be Vijnana; some say it is
Kala (time); and some Prakriti. Others there are
who find it an up-hill work for them, through their
Vikalpas and firm idea of differentiation of objects
in this world, to cognize and describe this
disembodied (or formless) state which, being
homogeneous, is beyond the power of speech. If
these seven Jnana stages are crossed in a non-
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