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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
finely illustrated in this story. King Sikhidwaja
after leaving his kingdom, retires into the forest.
There his wife, herself an adept, visits him in her
Mayavic Rupa or double, assuming a male
physical form and passing by the name of Kumbha
Muni. When the king found that this supposed
Muni was a personage of great powers, he took
him up as his Guru; he consenting to the two
conditions imposed upon him as in other cases of
initiation, namely, implicit faith in, and acting up
to, the words of the Guru and repeated efforts to be
made for the entire control of the mind. Then the
Muni remarks that the King s pains were caused by
want of true Sannyasa or renunciation in him. The
King replies that he gave up his kingdom, wealth,
wife, etc., and retired into the forest and wishes to
know if that is not true renunciation. No, the Muni
replies. Then the King gives up his love for the
forest in which he is and asks if that does not
constitute true renunciation. Again did the same
negative word come out of the lips of the Muni.
Then the King consigns the bowl, cloth, etc., which
alone he has, into the fire and wishes to know if
that is not Sannyasa. Again was the same negative
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