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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
Thus she was engaged in sweet Nishta
(meditation) for ten months, when Sarasvati THE
STORY OF LILA. 47 overjoyed (at her meditation),
appeared visibly before her with the radiance of a
full moon in the sky and said „Oh Lila, what is
your desire?‟
Whereupon the spouse of Padma saluted her and
ad dressed her thus „Oh you, who art like the moon
s rays which do not disappear before Agni (the
fire) or like the sun s light which dispels the gloom
of mental grief, please grant me the two boons:
firstly of allowing my lord s Jiva (ego) to remain in
my house, even after his death, and (secondly
thyself appearing before me visibly, whenever I
should think of thee.‟ These boons, the noble
Saraswati conferred upon her with good grace and
returned happily unto her seat. Then the wheel of
time rolled on rapidly with its nave of Paksha
(fortnight), month and Ritu (seasons, each of two
months), its spokes of days, its axle of years, and its
axle-hole of moments. When thus Lila had passed
her days in the company of her lord in illimitable
bliss, he suddenly in a short time died. Fearing lest
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