Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
beatitude will wear it as his foremost ornament;
will never degrade himself from that state; will be
able to digest all things taken in like sugar candy
by a swan whether such things are polluted or
mixed with poison or are injurious to health or
adulterated. Whether they swallow virulent poison
or counter-poison or milk or sugarcane juice or
food, they will preserve a perfect equanimity of
mind. Whether one points his dagger deep in their
head or preserves it, they will regard them neither
as foes or friends. Since persons of equal vision will
look upon all equally, their heart will be filled with
bliss. The wise will always arrest their mind
through their intelligence from entering the visible
filled with the illusion of the inert senses. The
ignorant who have not known their own self which
is of the nature of Jnana without the least
despondency of heart, will be preyed upon by their
senses, like the grass nibbled by a herd of deer.
Through Sanga (association or attraction of the
mind), material objects are caused; through it, all
accidents are generated; through it all desires arise;
through it, this mundane existence arises.
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