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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
At which Raghava exclaimed „Being under the
control of Vasanas generated by me in my former
births, I have not been making efforts in the
direction of the right path. Oh Guru, what then am
I to do?
On Vasanas pure and impure: To which Vasistha
replied thus, „Oh Rama of marvellous qualities, it is
through one s efforts alone and none else that the
Brahmic seat can be mastered. Now the hosts of
Vasanas may be divided under two heads, vis., the
pure and the impure. Of these two, those alone
which were generated by him in his many lives
will cling to him (in his future births). Should the
pure ones cling to him, he will easily attain the
immaculate Brahmic Seat through them; but in the
case of the impure Vasanas, pains will be
generated. You should, oh Rama, even through
dint of painful efforts, avoid these impure ones.
Through the two ordained paths of good and evil,
the current of Vasanas swells enormously. May
you, after straining all your nerves in the
cultivation of Brahma vidya (Brahmic science),
liberate yourself from the impure Vasanas and rest
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