Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
So saying he ordered auspicious waters to be
brought with which he anointed the king; and then
with his hands adorned with conch and discus, he
decorated the king s head with a precious rubied
crown in the midst of the eulogies of Devas, hosts
and then addressed the king thus „May you live
and reign, so long as the immoveable Mahameru,
the earth, the sun and the moon endure and then
enter the supreme state.
With these words Vishnu disappeared in a
moment with all the Deva hosts, like the
instantaneous disappearance of a false Mayavic
creation.
At these words of Vasistha, Rama questioned him
thus „How did the king of the Asuras, after
attaining Jnana and becoming merged in the true
Brahman, return (unto the normal state) at the
conch-sound of Vishnu? In the case of all
Jivanmuktas without the load of Samsara in whom
the pure Vasanas are like a burnt seed, such a seed
in their heart will never be productive of re-birth.
But these pure Vasanas inasmuch as they are pure,
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