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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
together. Then they passed through diverse places
for the immeasurable ten Ghatikas‟ distance, some
replete with petrified sable gloom inaccessible to
any and others, radiant with the lustre of Agni
(fire) or the Sun journeying on his swift car. Thus
waded they through the Akasa of the three worlds,
wherein abode the myriads of Jivas created by
Brahma buzzing like the swarms of flies collected
in a ripe fig fruit.
Then contemplating upon reaching their longedfor
place, they crossed Brahma‟s egg 32 and reached
Girigrama in the Loka where Vasistha lived. As the
new arrivals were invisible to the menials, relatives
and offsprings of the Brahmin suffering from dire
pains, Lila, of Satya-Sankalpa willed that the
inmates of the house should see her and her comate.
Thereupon taking these two, who were like
Lakshmi and Parvati, to be some sylvan goddesses,
the menials, etc., worshipped them and paid them
proper respects. Of these, the eldest son ad dressed
them thus „You should lighten us of the load of
32 i.e. the world
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