Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
beneficial nature of a thing arise otherwise than
through the grace of the wise? Even though I am a
knower of Brahman, still as I have rid myself soon
of all existences through your visit, this birth of
mine is fraught with the most wonderful of results.
Therefore you art Iswara himself.‟ So saying he
increased his respects towards me.
Then I enquired of him as to how he separated
himself from his brothers. To which Bhusunda
replied „In this spot, we lived for many Yugas, nay
for many Kalpas. At last my brothers disregarding
this body as a mere trifle, gave it up for Moksha.
Though blessed with longevity, glory and power,
they perished (or disappeared) through their own
Sankalpa.‟
I asked him: „How will you to survive the terrible
Pralaya when fierce gales play their havoc and the
twelve Adityas (suns) burn up the whole
universe?‟
Bhusunda answered: Do you think nature‟s action
will ever cease to be? At the time of Pralaya, I will
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