Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
presence, he freed himself from the many fat
bodies he had assumed (in the many births).
Through the force of dire destiny, another person
was born in another spot. Like the former person,
he appeared before us in a plight similar to the
other and scourged himself, when I consoled him
as previously. Then this wayfarer passed along his
path and gave up that body. Again did he come in
another guise and in this life of his, he fell into that
deep unfrequented well. We did not see him
emerge out of that well for a long time. Then there
appeared on the stage of this ever perturbed forest
(this person as) another who, though he was
greatly checked in his path and shown the road to
true knowledge by us, spurned our advice and still
persisted in his obstinate course of lashing himself
as he went along. Even now do such ferocious
persons exist writhing under great pains and
dwelling in such dire forests replete with sharppointed
thorns and enveloped in such a thick
gloom as to instil fear into all hearts. But wise men,
even should they live in the midst of a fiery burnt-
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