Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
recede to a great distance. Will the full-moon
appear visibly to us, when sable clouds intervene
between it and our eyes? So long as there is the
centering of affection on this body which is non-
Atman and the mistaken identification of it with
Atman, so long will the mind grow fatter and fatter
in its association with the Samsara of wife,
children, etc. The mind waxes stronger and
stronger also through its egoistic sports (or actions)
and the dualities of conception arising through
Ahankara. O my son Raghava, in every birth, the
mind grows through the mental disease (of objects)
getting more and more prevalent in it and the
consequent tenacity of mundane existence and
efforts directed towards the gain or loss of objects
in the same. Of course, when women, wealth,
gems, and other objects are longed after and
acquired, such gain or the greed arising out of the
gain produces for the time being pleasure and
seems to be productive of good to him. But such
good tends only to glut the mind. Having quaffed
the milk of vicious desires, this serpent of mind
will be invigorated and crawl about everywhere,
breathing the atmosphere of the long standing
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