Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
fed upon all their lives in the form of Jiva Suchika
and Vayu-Suchika. Surfeited with such an
enjoyment, she exclaimed „Whirling and making
me despondent, my desires do make even the
needle to wear away and making me giddy, do
destroy me. Away with these desires of mine! With
a cruel heart, I have afflicted many lives in vain.
Therefore, I shall divest myself of all desires and
perform Tapas in the Himalayas „So saying, she
gave up all fluctuation of mind, devoid of any
longing- for objects. Thus a thousand years passed,
purifying her of the two-fold Karmas, (virtuous
and sinful).
While she was engaged thus in spiritual
contemplation with an illuminated mind, free from
all the pains of love and hatred and slighting this
universe, the all-full Jnana dawned in her mind
and therefore Brahma came voluntarily to her and
imparted to her the following truths: „You have
attained the Jivanmukti state. Your mind has been
quite illumined; yet you shall be in your old form
of a Rakshasa lady and support yourself on earth
in the bodies of persons without Jnana as well as
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