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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
beneficent object exists on this earth, either in the
beginning, middle or end, Are not all created
objects coated over with the varnish of destruction?
The ignorant, every day of their lives, enact with
their body dire sinful acts, painful deeds and
illimitable vices. In youth, they will be enveloped
with Ajnana; in adult age, they are entangled in the
meshes of women; in old age, groaning under the
burden of Samsara, they die. Being thus always
occupied, when will they find time to devote
themselves to the commission of virtuous deeds?
How came this Maya to play and dance in this
world? This ghost of my mind dances in the
theatre of this universe to the music of the organs.
Asat is perched on the crown of Sat. Similarly
Adharma or pains is ever seated on the crown of
the illuminated Dharma in this universe. If pains
are seated on the crown of (or are the necessary
accompaniments) the stainless pleasures, how can
we discriminate between them and find out the
stainless? If in the opening and the closing of the
eyelids, many Brahmas are created and destroyed,
what am I, a puny self, before them? A rare
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