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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
following words „You shall be able to see Maya.
You shall, after personally seeing it, be able to free
yourself from its yoke.‟ With these words, Vishnu
disappeared at once like a Gandharva city.
Thereupon the Brahmin was filled with a perennial
bliss at having come in contact with the incarnation
of the divine grace and spent some days in Tapas
in that forest when there recurred to his memory
the blessed sentences of Vishnu on his way to the
lotus-filled tank to bathe. Dipping his head into the
water, he forgot to perform the recitation of the
Vedic Mantras and Dhyana (meditation) which it
was his wont to do, while in the process of bathing.
And lo! he saw himself dead of a disease in his
own house with his relatives gathered together,
weeping by the side of his body, whilst his wife
cried bitterly at his feet; and his mother prompted
by sheer maternal love was embracing her son, as
if she was again suckling him and writhing with
pains, drooped senseless like one who had trodden
the fire. In this state of affairs, the weeping
relatives by began and finished the subsequent
post mortem rites and kindled the funeral pyre for
cremation. The body was disposed of in the
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