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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
associated with body will never fail to be re moved
by Asamvedana. Do not fall in love with your de
sires but regard them in the light of a carcase to be
loathed. When the mind, through the powerful
Pratyahara 144 mode, hankers not after desires
which should be thought of as nothing but
Vasanas, then the mind will remain still. This effort
is called Asamvedana.
The wise say that the ideas of „mine‟ and „thine‟ are
only the foul creations of the mind. If all objects
vanish through the contemplation of Jnana, the
wise, oh stainless Prince, say that all the unreal
illusions will disappear. The existence of Manas is
itself Sankalpa; but its non-existence is Siva itself
(auspiciousness or bliss). The contemplation of
feeling and non-feeling after crossing all objects is
the true one. May you, after abandoning all ideas
of intelligence and non-intelligence and becoming
oblivious of all things, remain steadfastly and
firmly, like a decayed tree, with great Jnana and in
an unchanged state.
144 One of the eight parts of Yoga for restraining the organs
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