Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
account of chase. Like Ajnanis who wallow amidst
their painful wealth through a non-discriminative
mind, I entered, on horseback, a desolate waste
with a seething heat that scorched all things and
even the senses. There I and my charger became
quite jaded through our peregrinations in the
forest with despondent heart and ceaseless pains,
till the sun set in the west. Like a Jnani who frees
himself from the load of Samsara and proceeds
onward in his path, I after crossing the waste
reached a delicious forest teeming with many
kinds of trees such as Jambu, Kadamba and lime
and reverberating with the songs of feathered
songsters. Whilst I was thus riding on the horse, a
creeper high up in a tree twined round my neck
and immediately the speedy horse bolted out of
my sight, like sins from a bather in the Ganges,
leaving me rocking to and fro aloft in the air with
the creeper encircling my neck. Thus dangling
down, my body became stiffened with the cool
winds blowing on it and my mind became
paralysed. Without bath, worship, meditation or
food during the day, I saw night approach with her
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