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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
pleasant mountain abounding with plantain trees
emitting camphor odour, Kadamba and Areca
trees. This Muni was the son of Saraloma who was
like the son of Brahma, being in the possession of
Tapas fitting one for Moksha. He was like Kacha,
the son of the Lord Brihaspati (Jupiter) in Deva
loka; among the mortals he was the supreme of
men; and in Tapas was unrivalled. After Saraloma
had passed many yugas in the forest on these
mountains along with his son, he extricated
himself from his body, like a bird out of its cage
and assumed Deva (celestial) form. Being left alone
in the forest, Dasura, the son wept bitterly over his
dear father‟s death like a nightingale parted from
its mate and forgot to perform, with the
purificatory water, all those obsequies that are
ordained in the case of pure Brahmins.
While he was thus of a dejected on account of
separation of his parent, the sylvan Devata
(goddess) commissera- ting greatly his pitiable
condition and without making herself visible to
him, addressed him (as a voice in the silence) thus
Oh you son of a great Muni, being yourself a Muni
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