Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
passing all belief. How is it possible for the
universe to be affected with manifold pains
through this illusory Maya, like a series of hills
bound and crushed by the filament of a lotus? I can
rather believe a straw to assume the density of
adamant than this universe to become concreted
into its present shape, through the power of Maya
which is unreal. Still another doubt has flashed
across my brain. Whence the pains of King Lavana
previously mentioned by you.‟
Lavana’s mental Yajna: Vasistha answered his
queries thus As Lavana performed actions through
a stainless mind, his body did not share in their
fruits. This King was one day spending- his time
solitarily in his pleasure garden and then began to
fall into the following profound reverie. He
thought of performing mentally the Raja-Suya 49
Yajna which his ancestor, Harischandra had done
with his physical body. Through his Sankalpa, he
willed the existence of ploughs and other utensils
49 This is a sacrifice done by Emperors as a mark of their undisputed
sovereignty over the whole world.
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