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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
worldly enjoyments. With the proclivities of the
mind towards material objects, bondage in objects
becomes strengthened; otherwise, the bondage
becomes slackened and in course of time perishes.
Oh Rama, the extinction of Vasanas alone, is
Moksha (salvation); but the concretion of the mind
in material objects through Vasanas is bondage.
Those persons are Jivanmuktas who have quite
disabled the Vasanas and are indifferent to the
many worldly enjoyments without the aids of
Tapas (religious austerities), Vratas (religious
observances) and others. That one Principle which
Rama s mind has cognized through the utterances
of the Great Ones is the one Reality and none else.
Now the only person who is able to relieve this
Great Soul of Rama from all his doubts and render
his mind quiescent is the omniscient Vasistha who
knows clearly the three periods of time, is the Guru
of men in this world and is a witness to all things
having name, form, etc. ‟So said Viswamitra in the
king‟s assembly.
Having spoken these words, Viswamitra looked at
Vasistha s face and reminded him by saying that
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