Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
without doubt encompass very easily things
otherwise difficult of achievement. Oh Jnana
conferring Muni, I have to inform you that I am the
Goddess presiding over this forest. I always love to
reside in the exquisite arbours of plants teeming
with the blooming flowers. In the month of Chaitra
(April- May) when the moon shines with thirteen
Kalas (on the 13th day), I was in the group of
sylvan goddesses, who had assembled together on
the occasion of the grand festival of Kama (the god
of Love). All my companions rejoiced in the
possession of sons; being childless, my mind
greatly gave way. While you, Lord, are here like a
Kalpa tree yielding anything to those persons that
long for it, why should I bewail over the want of a
child, as if having no protector. Therefore please
bless me with a son: else I will enter the flames
through the grief of childlessness.‟
At which the Muni laughed and handing over to
her a flower, said thus Oh Swan-like one, you will
in the course of a month be able to easily get a son;
but as you implored for a son through the vow of
entering the flames in case your request were not
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