Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
mentioned). And it should be remembered that it is
far better to lead a mendicant s life by begging for
food at the doors of even outcastes with a bowl in
hand than to pass a life of Ajnana. Immense
wealth, friends, relatives, Benares and other sacred
places, bathing in the Ganges and other waters, the
hermitage of Munis, religious austerities afflicting
the body and other like things are not the sure
means of ever reaching the higher state; but it is
through the mind s efforts that the immaculate and
supreme Seat can be attained.
Santi: „Now listen, oh Rama, to the ineffaceable
characteristics of the four sentinels placed at the
gate of Moksha. If the supreme „sweet patience that
nought can ruffle‟ be mastered, then all desires and
sorrow will fly like gloom before the rising sun.
Being confided in (and loved), like a mother, by the
virtuous as well as the vicious, such persons of
sweet patience will never be ruffled in mind,
whether they get nectar to drink and enjoy the bliss
of Lakshmi residing in the luxuriant lotus flower,
or are engaged in great wars, entailing excessive
carnage, or whether they are born or dead. They
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