Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
illusion, terrific to be hold and replete with dire
pains. A fractional part of its utter most limit
measured many myriads of Yojanas 45. In that forest
lived a Purusha (personage) with eyes and hands
untold. He had a Chitta (mind) which flitted
everywhere. He had the all-distending form of
Akasa. Armed with many carved sticks of great
speed on his person, he scourged himself with
them, and then smarting under those pains and
setting up a vociferous yell, he would run in all
directions without having any mastery over
himself. Dashing himself against all objects in
intense gloom, he would precipitate himself down
the deep and desolate well of terrific sins and there
would be eking out a life of misery. Then emerging
out of that well, he would, as before, lash his body
and scream out, whirling ever on his heels. In his
impetuous haste, he would entangle himself in a
forest of trees full of long brambles and being
perforated all throughout the body, would flutter
like the moth in a flame. Then running to a fine
plantain garden, he would run to the other extreme
45 Yojanas are reckoned by some to be I0 miles; by others, 7 or 8 miles.
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