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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
sporting with Lila. Then the pleasant sensation of
marvel and joy arose in him, the former on account
of the diverse workings of Maya, and the latter,
since the knowledge of Maya he derived through
the grace of these, the (world s) mothers. With
these thoughts in his mind, he wore their feet on
his head and said „In the one day that passed from
the extinction of my former body up to now (as
seen through my Divine vision), I have spent
seventy years with this my present body. I have
also known all the events that transpired during
that period. Whence are all these curious anomalies
of Maya?‟
Thereupon Saraswati of the form of Divine grace
vouchsafed the following reply, ‟the trance called
Death is always accompanied at that very spot and
in that very instant, by the great delusion of rebirths
(and vice versa). Now the conception of the
duration of 70 years arose only through the
delusion of the Karmas performed by you, while in
life. Know therefore and perceive for yourself that
when your mind was rendered immaculate like
Akasa free from all illusions, such conceptions of
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