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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
called Buddhi, through its certainty of knowledge.
It is called the Ahankara when the conceptions of
„I‟ and „mine‟ assert themselves with the signs of
anger, etc. And it is this mind alone, that is the
universe through the conception of excessive
differentiations. Whilst you and your son were
engaged in Nirvikalpa Samadhi, your son
abandoned his fleshy tabernacle through excessive
desires and mentally joined, in the Akasa, a Deva
lady by the name of Viswaci. Then he incarnated -
on earth in the country of Dasarna as the son of a
Brahmin. He went the round of lives as a King in
the country of Kosala, a hunter in an extensive
forest, a swan on the banks of the Ganges, a great
King in the Solar family ruling over Poundra
country and the Guru of the Solar race in Salwa
country. For the long period of a Kalpa, he passed
his life as the King of Vidyadharas; he was the
intelligent son of a Muni of great Tapas; a chieftain
in Souvira country with large tanks with fishes
playing in them; the Guru of Saivites (followers of
Siva) in another country; a bamboo cluster in
another country, full of fragrance; a stag in a
decayed forest; a fierce looking boa-constrictor in a
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