Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
destruction of those bodies, he saw his present
body springing into existence. In order to lift this
body out of the earth in which it was deeply
buried, he went to the sun with concentrated mind
and Puriashtaka (subtle) body to fetch Pingala 100
from there. No sooner did the Muni reach the sun,
than the latter divined the object of the Muni and
sent Pingala with him in order that the Muni's
subtle body might enter and animate the gross one
lying on the Vindhya hills. Arriving at the spot,
Pingala cleared off the earth accumulated round
the body of the Muni and thus paved the way for
the subtle body to enter and animate the gross one.
Having fulfilled his mission Pingala departed,
Veethahavya then bathed and made the necessary
ablutions and worshipped the sun. Now that his
gross body was animated by his intelligent mind, it
began to shine with all its attributes and actions.
Being full of mental restraint, benevolence,
quiescence, spiritual wealth, fine intelligence,
tenderness and contentment, his mind was not in
100 Pingala is the Solar Nadi in man, one of the three, Ida, Pingala and
Sushumna.
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