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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
thorns is this Bhu loka (earth) filled with the two
sexes of beings of excessive passion. (9) Then the
fact of that personage who, after toppling down
into the well, was not able to rise from it for a long
time and then (in another incarnation) entered the
city, stands for the mind not yet freed from its sins.
(I0) The long-pointed thorns represent the males
and females of this world full of passions, (n) The
words You are my enemy though paltry and It is
only through you that I have identified myself with
the pains and pleasures, I have been suffering from
are the outbursts of the mind in its last gasp of
death through discrimination. (I2) The cry set up is
when the desires are sought to be annihilated. (I3)
The bewailing and the invocation for aid are
through the pains which the mind with halfdeveloped
Jnana feels when it relinquishes all
desires. (I4) The final cool joy and the laugh
consequent upon it, is the bliss arising from the
mind merging into the stainless Jnana. (I5) And the
real bliss is that one which arises when the mind,
divested of all desires through the eternal Jnana,
destroys its subtle form. (I6) The bridling of the
mind through excessive power, refers to the
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