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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
Yoga; yet in ordinary usage, the control of Prana
alone is called Yoga. Both these paths have been
given out by Parameswara. To the temperament of
some, Yoga is most desirable; to the temperament
of others, Jnana is most desirable. Of these two, I
have already expatiated upon the true Jnana. Now
I shall deal with Yoga. To illustrate it, I shall recite
to you a nectar-like sweet story. Once upon a time,
I was in the august synod of Devendra along with
Deva Rishis and others. There I heard, from the
lips of Narada and other Munis, the stories of
Chiranjivis (the long-lived). Please lend your ears
to one of them. A big nest like a mountain was
built on the southern branch of a Kalpa tree which
reared its head aloft on the north-eastern side of
the summit of Mahameru dazzling like a diamond.
In that nest, lived a crow named Bhusunda, a Yogi.
Who could, either before or after this Yogi, vie with
him in all the worlds Swarga world even in the
length of time a Yogi can sit in Yoga? This
Bhusunda was the longest lived and desireless;
had the wealth of Moksha, the greatest intelligence,
extreme quiescence and the faculty of a seer to
cognize clearly all the three periods of time.
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