Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
of intense exultation. Again and again would he
recur from this pleasurable gar den to the previous
thorny forest and thence into the well and back
again, finding pleasure in none.
Seeing him reel thus giddily many times, we
(Brahma) caught him under our grip to free him
from all fears and questioned him thus. „Who are
you that thus art groaning under pains? What are
you about here? And what is your intention?‟. To
which that person replied thus „All persons having
the concept of I (and other differences) are nonexistent
to me. I have not been able to find any
actions for me to perform in this world. I am quite
pained by the heterogeneous differentiations set up
by you. You are my enemy, though paltry. It is
only through you, that I have identified myself
with the pains and pleasures, I have been suffering
from.‟ Having said so, he cast a survey over his
body. His heart began to melt and he cried aloud
with a thunder like sound. Desisting, in a moment,
from his loud wails, he again cast his eyes over his
beautiful form and laughed aloud for a long time,
as if to burst open his belly. Then, in my very
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