Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
intelligence and a study of the supreme spiritual
books? If only the readers of Atma- Jnana works
who do take delight in them would cease to long
for the fruits at once but will meditate regularly
and gradually upon them, then the mind will by
degrees be ripened and at the end the endless
Atman will be reached.
May you, without pains or fear or sloth or egoism,
walk in the path laid out by Atma-Jnana books,
without heeding to the illusory voices of anyone.
Do not court destruction (by treading a wrong
path). All our properties are but futile. All our
wealth land us but into dangers. But non- desires
take us into Elysium. Fame, longevity and
acquisitions as well as Brahmic seat are
involuntarily attained, like a soft tendril in spring,
by those wise men who, walking in the right path,
do not in the least long after material pleasures
productive of the pains of Samsara. Having
prostrated at the beautiful feet of those great
persons, one should free himself through their aid
from the trammels of re-births which cannot be
avoided through mere Tapas or pilgrimage or
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