Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
illustrate the same. Listen, oh Rama, to a small
anecdote which will astonish even the learned.
There is a Bilwa fruit of such huge dimensions that
neither Kotis (crores) nor Maha-Kotis nor lakhs of
Kotis of Yojanas can measure it. It will not decay
even when a Maha-Kalpa closes. Though the
ancient of ancients, its glory is such that it is more
soft and delicious than the moon on the third day
of the waxing fortnight. It will remain quite
unruffled even amidst the fierce storms and gales
at the end of a Kalpa and is the seed of Brahma s
egg. It is indeed impossible to set a limit to the
number of mundane eggs which generate out of,
and are absorbed in, this fruit to which no words
can do full justice. Though ripe ever, it will never
decay. It is the quintessence in full of all other
fruits. The fleshy part of this fruit is illimitable and
typifies but the all- pervading nature of jnana. The
marrow in the fruit is the fluctuating Chit-Sakti
which, arising in the fruit (of Brahman) that is
equal in all, produces, through its intelligential
potencies, the heterogeneities of Akasa, the Kalas
(parts) the imperishable Law, motion, the dome of
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