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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
up forest, will regale and rejoice in it as in a cool
flower garden wafting sweet odours.
Here Rama asked Rishi Vasistha to give the
underlying meaning of this story. At which the
great Muni thus continued. (1) The interminable
forest referred to in the story is nothing but this
Samsara (mundane existence) which is devoid of
beginning, middle or end, is associated with Maya
(or is illusory) and is lofty, dire and replete with
excessive Vikalpas. (2) The Purusha (personage)
residing in this forest of the universe filled with the
vapour of fiery ire stands for the mind whirling
with pains. (3) He who checked the impetuous
passage of the mind represents the incomparable
discrimination. (4) The mind attained through its
enemy of discrimination the quiescent state of Para
Brahm. (5) The mind at first turned its back upon
discrimination and hence entangled itself in the
folds of Vasanas of objects. (6) The well into which
the egos sink after macerating their bodies is
Naraka (hell); (7) but the plantain garden
symbolises Swarga loka (or Heaven) full of
enjoyments. (8) The forest of trees abounding with
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