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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
Those, who have cognized in their hearts Brahman
full of all potencies, will ever be protected by the
guardian angels of the eight quarters just as the
vast universes are. Those only can truly be styled
Men who are possessed of true love, bent upon a
ceaseless enquiry and ever engaged with true
efforts for the realization of „That‟ which enables
one to discern Truth. The rest of mankind are
brutes merely.
Though sore pressed by dire afflictions, one should
never perform actions which ought not to be done.
In drinking even nectar through ways forbidden,
Rahu 59 had to suffer greatly from it. But in the case
of the wise who have reached a high state through
their good qualities, all things impossible before of
subjugation are now mastered; all dangers flee
from before them and they are in possession of all
incomparable acquisitions. What is there that
cannot be encompassed easily by those stainless
men, through their ceaseless efforts, their
59 Rahu, the serpent and one of the two nodes had to suffer in the
churning of the ocean by having his head cut off.
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