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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
motionless and erect. Then his body was buried in
a hillock of sand formed by floods of water.
Awaking from his Samadhi, the Muni found his
body fixed in the earth. All the avenues of his body
being blocked up by the earth around, the Prana-s
were unable to circulate freely. But when he began
to concentrate his mind and pervade the heart
within, as in a dream, he began to perceive the
following things: He spent 100 years as a Tapaswin
on the slopes of the Kailasa 98 hills; then as a
Vidyadhara for another 100 years; as Devendra
worshipped by the Deva-s in Deva loka for five
Yugas; then as Ganesa 99, the beloved of
Parameswara, wearing the moon on his matted
locks.
Thus did the Muni see his former lives pass in
review in his divine vision, which was able to
know the three periods, past, present and future,
and was developed through submissive service
rendered unto Lord Paramesvara. Then with the
98 Kailasa, name of the hills upon which Siva is said to reside.
99 The son of Siva.
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