Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
mountains, the sun, the moon, the stars, the seat of
Meru and others differ with every fresh creation.
All these have fallen under my direct ken. Each of
these four yugas has got their respective
peculiarities of Dharmas (duties), etc.‟
Here Vasistha interposed: How didst you manage
to get out of the clutches of Yama (Death), engaged
as you were in worldly actions?
The Yogi said: „What good results will accrue to
those who will not act up to the injunctions of the
Great ones? Though you know this, I shall explain
it to you, in as much as you have asked of me.
Yama will not in the least approach those whose
minds have cast off the beads of the pearls of stains
strung in the string of pains. Yama will not
approach those minds are never subject to the
agonies which are like a sword to the tree of
certitude or vermin to the body. Yama will not
approach those wise persons who do not nourish
in themselves the hissing serpent of desire which
rests its head in the mind and twines itself round
this tree of perishable body. Yama will not
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