Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
versed in all departments of knowledge then a king
I in another creation then I underwent through a
series of wombs amounting I to a hundred in all.
Now I am a Rudra. Enormously long years and
yugas and numberless actions have passed. Let me
therefore dive into my past many births and see
them face to face. Let me, after observing them
fully, relate them to one another and render them a
homogeneous whole.‟
Meditating thus, Rudra traced his way to the
former Sannyasi and, having awakened him from
his trance, concentrated his mind with true Jnana.
Thereupon the Sannyasi woke up and looked
about himself free from all the reminiscences of his
illusory life. Again did Rudra contemplate upon
the illusory form of Jivata and reach along, with
the ascetic, a certain part of Jnanakasa. Through
them, Jivata attained a conscious state and
accompanied them both. Then all these three
Rudra, the ascetic and Jivata full of Jnana, were
without the least surprise, though there was every
reason for it. They had three separate bodies,
though they were the non-dual Siva itself. Then
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