Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
grim attendants of darkness, pains and extreme
shivering which set my teeth against one another.‟
„At dawn of day the glorious orb arose, dispelling
that darkness like Jnanis driving away their mental
gloom. Then I cast my eyes around and cut
asunder the creeper that twined round my throat
and then having descended from there, looked
about for some living person but in vain. After an
hour and a half had elasped, an outcaste girl quite
an alien to me arrived on the scene, like darkness
facing the moon. This girl, who had a dark skin
and sable vesture, approached me with some
delectable food in her hand. Unable to control my
hunger, I entreated of her thus, „Oh Swan-like one,
please bestow on me that which you have in your
hand‟. But I paid the penalty of all those poverty
stricken persons who go and beg of another in
haste through their extreme hunger; for this girl
did not vouchsafe to give it to me, as if I had not
earned the right to get it through my Tapas, and
took to her heels. Then ensued a chase in which I
hunted her throughout the forest and after getting
at her, piteously complained to her of my extreme
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