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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
have now clearly cognized that Atman Jnana, you
have abandoned all longing for enjoyments and the
sight of the visibles. You have, through your allfull
mind and without pains, attained all that could
be got at, vis., Brahman itself. You have
commingled with that secondless Principle which
is above the reach of all vision. You have become a
Jivanmukta 13. But there is one thing which you
have yet to do, w 0., the giving up of the delusion
of Maya which has arisen in your mind (the giving
up of which, will entirely free you and not bar your
further progress).‟
When the king of kings named Janaka thus
initiated Suka into the Atmic mysteries 14 (through
his direct presence), the stainless Rishi attained
quiescence in his Atman or Higher Self, being freed
13 A Jivanmukta is one who is emancipated while in body while a
Videhamukta is one who is emancipated after discarding the body.
14 He who attains unto Atman, having- overcome Maya, the illusion,
will alone know what Maya is and how it arises and is destroyed. And
this knowledge of Atman is an occult mystery which is the subject of
initiation by a Guru. Hence it is we find that no words can describe the
origin of Maya, etc. As Suka was a fit disciple, he was made to have an
Aparoksha or direct perception of the same by Janaka.
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