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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
actions of the mind alone are, indeed, actions; but
not so, those of the body.
In the previous narrative of the ten Brahmins
related by the sun, they became Brahma after
performing Tapas in Padma posture and created
the worlds. Who else than Brahma can easily and
truly understand the wonderful potency of the
mind? The mind contemplating upon the body,
becomes the body itself and then (enmeshed in it),
is afflicted by it. The all-full Jnanis through the
contemplation of Brahman within, are never
affected by the pains assailing this body of nine
gates. So indeed were, in days of yore, Indra and
Ahalya who were guilty of adultery.
Here Rama asked Vasistha as to who these two
were. On which Vasistha continued thus In former
times, there lived a King by the name of
Indradyumna reigning over the country of
Magadha. The lady that ministered to his
enjoyment like his Prana, was called Ahalya. In
that town abode a person named Indra. True to the
tradition of the adulterous intercourse which
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