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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
departments of knowledge. In course of time, the
parents died and their sons retired to the Kailasa
hills where they began to soliloquise within
themselves thus „Shall we, to relieve ourselves
from this indigency which is afflicting us, become a
leader of men? As even this situation is but a paltry
one, Jet us become a king or rather an emperor
ruling over all worlds. Even this is insignificant,
when compared with the status of Devendra, the
lord of nine types of wealth. This too will not
suffice us. Therefore let us become the lotus-seated
Brahma wherein we can enjoy all kinds of stainless
wealth.‟ With this fixed resolve, all the ten
personages seated themselves in Padma posture
and with one concentrated and same purposed
mind were engaged in a non-fluctuating
meditation thus „We alone are Brahma; all the
creations are out of ourselves only.‟ Thus did they
pass long aeons of time, oblivious of their body
and immovable as a wood. When thus their mind‟s
thoughts (were perfected and) concreted
themselves (into a solid mass), all the ten became
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