Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
Extremely bewildered at the marvellous manner in
which they baffled all his attempts to make them
feel pain, he asked them the why of their being
proof against all tortures. At which, the exulting
pair breathed the following words „Oh you of
broad shoulders, as our eyes are regaling
themselves with the lunar ambrosia of one another
s face, we revel, within, in unimpeded bliss and
hence are entirely oblivious of our body. While so,
is it possible for us to (feel any pain or see our
body)? We never experience the slightest pain,
even when the body is ripped open. When the
mind is intensely fond of anything, there will be no
perception of pain, even when destruction awaits
the body. When the mind is completely drowned
in any object, who else is there to observe (and feel
from) the actions of the body? Even the curses of
Munis and the many Karmas will not be able to
divert that mind from its beloved seat within.
There is no end to the bodies which perished,
beyond number, but in vain (in the many previous
births.) All these bodies have their seat in (or
originate from) the mind only. Without water, can
a forest exist? It is the mind which transacts all
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