Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
of an illuminated mind, do not despond through
your pains like the ignorant. How is it you have
not, ere now, been impressed with the unreality of
this ephemeral Samsara? With birth, death is
inevitable. Are there per sons in this world who are
so insane as to maintain that the sun which rises in
the East does not set in the West? Do not play the
woman and afflict yourself with grief. So said the
sylvan goddess unobserved by him.
Having heard these words, the Muni shook off his
sorrow and performed all ceremonies in water
according to the Vedic injunctions and then longed
for the Tapas leading to Moksha. Therefore he
began to indulge in a love for the performance of
religious ceremonies according to the mandates of
the Veda to which he belonged. Being without full
Jnana, he was not satisfied with the purity of the
many spots of the earth he came across and so
contemplated in his mind upon performing Tapas,
like birds upon the top of a tree, as if such Tapas
alone could conduce to real purity. For this
purpose, he reared a large fire, invoked the Deva
hosts and so performed a Yajna by cutting into
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