Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
through extreme Tapas, they completely denuded
themselves of all desires. Then they again met.
With his mind and eye glowing, with love, Muni
Vilasa spoke first: „My true kinsman in this evergrowing
world, you have come to me as my Prana.
Where have you been living all this while? Have
you been freed from your mental pains? Have you
cognized your Atmic Reality as common to all? Oh
Bhasa, are you happy? To which Bhasa looking at
the face of his brother who had a mind ripened by
truth, replied, oh my kinsman who is as dear as my
Prana, through the sheer force of my destiny have I
been fortunate enough to visit you. My mind has
been rendered quite cool. How can I who am
whirling in this impure Samsara obtain the noble
happiness? How can the absolute good arise in me,
so long as I have not known all that should be
known, so long as the mind is not destroyed, so
long as the wheel of births is not arrested? How
can the transcendental happiness arise in me, so
long as the seed of desires in my mind along with
its strong root is not destroyed like a tree felled by
an axe, so long as Jnana is not cognized directly, so
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