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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
through the imbecility of your mind, it longs after
things of the world, please hear from me the means
of arresting it. So long as these desires exist in you,
so long will the poisonous disease of Samsara
creep upon and affect you. The mind which
expands itself everywhere, thus enmeshing itself in
bondage can be called the despicable Samsara
itself. Its destruction alone is Moksha. Such is the
truth.
If a disciple whose mind is cleansed of all its
illusions which make it real is initiated into the
sacred mysteries by a Guru, then it will get
quiescence like a drop of oil over a glass surface.
Through the illumination of Jnana this mind which
was originally of the form of the seed of desires
gives up all the delusion of re-births; and there
arises in it nothing (of the worldly desires) through
its Asamvedana (non-receptivity). If the desires
which bring in their train manifold mischief arise
at any time in you, you should destroy them at
once through Asamvedana. Though a host of
desires manifest themselves in you in diverse
ways, yet the Vasanas which are inseparably
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