Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
of men, into the most degraded condition of an
outcaste through such an alliance. Our lives of rebirths
flash like lightning and are as impermanent.
Dire indeed are the decrees of destiny.‟ So saying,
she wailed more and more.
The King, having heard her weep, told his
handmaids to go and pacify the old dame and
return with her, The old lady having approached
him, he accosted her thus „Who are you? who is
your daughter? And who are your children? Relate
to me all without omitting any incident.‟ At which
she replied „In this hamlet of Pariahs lived an
outcaste who was my lord. Through him, I begat a
daughter. She lived as wife with a king who came
to this forest like another Devendra. Through her
good fate from a long time, she bore three children
to him and lived happily; to make amends for it,
the fates become perverse and my children were
subjected to misfortunes and died. After my
daughter and others were living happily for a long
time, the clouds became relentless and shed not a
drop of water; there was a drought all throughout
the land and the outcastes flew in all directions and
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