Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
began to glow with life with their respective
functions. Then this patient personage appeared in
sight of Vishnu of rare grace. Descrying, with his
full-blown eyes, Vishnu before him, his mind
became all-full (with contentment).
Thereupon Vishnu, with great grace, looked at
Prahlada and blessed him thus „Oh immaculate
Prahlada, go and look after your wealth which is
praised and coveted by Indra, the lord of Devas.
Also look after your body. Why do you think of
abandoning this, your body at such a premature
period as this? So long as you are not haunted by
the San- kalpa of attraction and repulsion towards
objects, what matters it whether your body exists
or not? Now get you up from Samadhi. May you,
O Prahlada, be in the Jivanmukti state. May you,
until the end of this Kalpa, administer due justice
in this world with this body of yours in the
Jivanmukti state, but yet without groaning under
the load of Samsara. Why do you now in vain die
(or disappear from this world), when neither the
fires nor the twelve suns burn the universe out of
existence (and the Kalpa has not yet closed)? Is not
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