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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
has a face like unto the waxing third moon, the first
creation as a Brahmin when regality was longed
for, which I described to you before is itself
illusory. Likewise is this Padma creation. Even the
third creation of Viduratha birth which you were a
witness of, is also unreal, like the reflected image in
water.‟So said Saraswati, the world s mother.
On hearing these words, Lila questioned her thus,
„Oh Goddess, you have uttered untruth only. How
can your words hold? Where is the Jiva of the
Brahmin that lived in this house? Where did we,
who separated here, meet together? How did those
who were in the other world as well as its hells, the
ten quarters 31 and others join together and come to
this pleasant habitation of ours? Is it possible to
bind the infuriated Indra s elephant within a part
of a mustard seed? Will the Mahameru Mountain
enter a lotus seed and be crushed by a small bee
sitting over it? Will the lions be vanquished in a
war with the angry paltry gnats and then enter an
31 Besides the eight principal and intermediate quarters, the Nadir and
the Zenith are taken into account.
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