Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
like a toad in sound and other properties, why dost
you reel in vain ceaselessly? Why have you
subjected yourself to pleasures or pains? Why is it,
you are not able to immutably fix yourself in the
ever nectar-like equilibrated state of quiescence?
Oh my ever-expanding foolish mind, do not die
like the deer (Kuranga 91), through associating
yourself with sound, the property of the organ of
hearing. Neither should you subject yourself to
pains by running after the property of touch
arising from the skin, like a male elephant going in
amorous quest after its consort. Nor should you, O
mind, associating yourself with form, the property
of the eye, singe yourself to death, like a moth in
the light of a lamp. Nor should you, O mind,
associating yourself with taste, the property of the
tongue, perish like a fish caught by a bait. Nor
should you, O mind, be bound by odour, like bees
in quest of honey, through associating yourself
with breath proceeding from the lotus like heart.
Hence the deer, elephant, moth, fishes, and bees
91 Kuranga is also stated to be a species of bird attracted by and
perishing through sound.
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