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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
clouds, when the air becomes cool, addressed
Viswamitra thus: “Oh Supreme Muni, the
incarnation of grace and of great Tapas, as you
were pleased to allow my ignorant self to relate the
cause of my grief, I will do so. Now please hearken
to the impediments in my way.‟
„Born in the house of Dasaratha, my father, I
became well versed in all departments of
knowledge and conducted myself strictly
according to the dictates of religion. Then I
circumambulated this earth girt by ocean, bathing
as I went in the many sacred waters. With my
return from the pilgrimage, all my desires for this
delusion of the universe have ceased. There is not
even an iota of bliss in this world. Destruction
(death) exists only for birth, and birth is for death
again. Therefore all are illusory in this world. All
worldly things are generative of pains only,
fraught with all dangers, unrelated to one another,
related to one another only through the Sankalpa
of the mind, obdurate like an iron rod, and fruitful
of great (material) wealth. Therefore of what avail
are the enjoyments of objects and kingdoms? If we
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