Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
subjected themselves to one, two or three births.
Some of them have undergone more than a
hundred births. Some have attained births beyond
number of Kinnaras 63, Gandharvas, Vidyadharas
or the hosts of Uragas. Some are born as the sun or
the moon or Varuna: some as Brahma, Vishnu or
Siva; some as Brahmins or kings or Vysias or the
ser viceable Sudras; some as beasts, birds or
reptiles; some as tendrils, unripe fruits, fruits, roots
or straw. Some monads are born as the mountains,
Mahendra, Sahya, Meru or Mandara; some as the
trees, Kadamba, Lime, Palmyra, etc.; some as the
grand septenary seas of salt, curd, ghee, milk,
sugar-cane-juice, honey or pure water 64; some as
the different quarters or rivers and other objects,
high or low. Like a ball tossed to and fro by the
hand, these Monads are played about by time,
enter various bodies and attain discrimination
63 Kinnaras are Elementals of Bhuvarloka or intermediate space, with
the body of a human being and the head of a horse. Gandharvas are
elementals of the same regions which are musicians, and hence preside
over sounds. Uragas are Serpent Elementals. Vidyadharas are
elementals of another order.
64 This refers to the 7 seas by which the seven Dwipas are surrounded.
296