Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
from the pangs of birth and the agonies of death;
then all his enquiring spirit, perplexities of mind
and doubts vanished through (direct) selfcognition.
Then having reached the highest
pinnacle of Mahameru, he went into the nonfluctuating
Nirvikalpa Samadhi and after a period
of thousand solar years merged into the
Jnanakasa 15, like a light which, when divested of
its wick and ghee, returns back to its fount of
Akasic Agni (fire). Like water-drops becoming one
with the ocean of waves, he, being cleansed of the
stains of contemplation (or thinking), merged into
the secondless Brahman, the vibration that started
in himself (as the „I‟) having melted away. Thus
did he attain quiescence (of mind) free from the
delusion of Maya.
This is exactly the path you should follow, oh,
Rama. The right characteristic of a mind that has
known all that should be known is the nonidentification
of itself with the ever pleasurable
15 Jnana stands here for Brahman or Atman. It is stated to be Jnanaakas
as Akasa is all-pervading.
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