Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
burning ground by being soon reduced to ashes.
Thus did Gadhi, in the midst of the waters in the
tank, see through his mind the illusory actions that
were per formed by himself through himself. Now
Rama, listen to what subsequently transpired.
Then Vasistha continued thus „This life being over,
Gadhi found himself reincarnating in the womb of
a lady like a jet-black picture who belonged to the
degraded caste of dog-eaters. With great travail,
she brought him out into this world as a male
child. After being fondled as a baby, he grew up to
man hood with a body quite sable like a cooled
charcoal. With none to equal him in the degraded
caste he was in, he married a girl of the same caste
and with her lived in great union and joy. Whilst
they were living harmoniously like life and mind,
over hills, forests, and other fine places, their union
blossomed forth in the birth of issues. Some time
elapsing, dotage and excessive grayness set in
upon the husband who constructed a house of
leaves at a distance from his place and there dwelt
in it as a great Tapaswin. The children too
advanced in life and became old. Whilst they were
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