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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
re-births is like the tepid ocean at the time of
deluge; but to those who are not subject to
delusion, it (re-birth) is as harmless as the
footprints of a cow. The mind of the painless wise,
the sensual pleasures will never affect. Of what
avail to persons living in towns, are the low
females living in barren tracts and incapable of
yielding pleasures to any? In the spacious and pure
ocean of Brahman, mountains are like foams.
Before the sun of Brahman, the earth encircled by
the oceans is but a false car. These knotty points
were once propounded clearly by Kacha, the son
obtained by Brihaspati through a boon.
Now hearken to that story: Once upon a time
Kacha, after having returned from the supreme
Samadhi he was in, exclaimed thus with an
exhilarating heart and a voice that did not know
how to find its expression through its ecstatic
enjoyment. What is it that I shall have to do? To
which quarters shall I fly, (there being none for me
now)? What shall I cease to perform or abstain
from? Like the flood of the deluge, my Self alone
pervades everywhere in this world. Whether in
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