Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
teeming with pains. It is indeed passing strange
that at such a tender age the subtle enquiry of
spiritual things should dawn in his mind with
great steadfastness. Therefore retiring into solitude,
in order that he might give vent to his thoughts
like a flower plant in its congenial soil, he cogitated
in his mind upon the real nature of this universe
composed of heterogeneous objects utterly
disconnected with one another. There is nothing
new (under the sun). All things pass away but to
re-appear under another form. Days gone by
return again; nights recur again and again. The
same gift and the same alms-giving again and
again recur. So are repeatedly performed eating
and other Karmas. Persons entangled in delusion
perform the same things over and over with out in
the least being ashamed or tired of such acts. They
will ever be immersed in actions which make them
droop without conferring any good on them. That
is true Karma (action), the performance of which
will enable one to attain that stainless One, after
which there is nothing more to be longed after; but
all other Karmas which tend to a conception of
duality are nothing but poisonous diseases.
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