Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
them. Should Rama, my eldest son, part from here,
my other three sons will not find themselves alive
afterwards. Nor is it likely, I shall outlive, one
moment, his separation. Now I am not afraid of
any enemy other than Ravana, though before I was
not afraid of him too. Will the courage of warriors
who make their enemies retreat before them, be
ever a fixed quantity? Time, in its revolution works
miraculous changes in all things. The mighty
become weaklings. As I am old, I am grieved as to
what I should do hereafter.‟ Thereupon,
Viswamitra said with great wrath. „Having
promised me first, you have overstepped truth. A
war like leonine king like you, to conduct yourself
like a paltry beast! You may live happily with your
wife, sons, and other relatives. I will repair to the
place whence I came. Observing these events
taking place, Vasistha interposed and said to
Dasaratha: „Born, as you art, in the race of Manu,
and dubbed with the title, Emperor Dasaratha, you
should preserve your word inviolate. If your
tongue should err, who else will maintain his word
P If your subjects on this earth will unfailingly act
up to the strict justice enunciated by you with a
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