Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
a river-bed. One may rather count the number of
fruits yielded by the trees of a vast forest in the
fruit-bearing season than the many relatives which
one had during his previous innumerable births.
And if we begin to bewail on their behalf, do you
think, brother, a Kalpa will suffice for exhausting
our grief on that score? The torrent of miragewaters
(undulatory waves) meandering in the
season called Vasanas over the valley of mirage
which is the formless Ajnana, sweeps along its
current the hills of pleasures and pains and dashes
without limit or differences. This universe which
has arisen in the form of wife and other relatives,
foes and kindred love and hatred, nobleness and
lowness as well as other pairs, exists and expands
by virtue of its name (and form) only and none
else. Think of one as a good friend of yours and
there the thing is created as a reality. Think of him
as your foe and then also the mind perfects the
thought into an actuality. Like the properties of the
murderous poison or the rejuvenating nectar
which accomplish their desired ends, so also if
once the bondage-giving thoughts are completely
destroyed by one, then they will never resurrect
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