Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
set about enquiring, whence came the „I‟ or the
body we have, we find that all those which are
foreign to Atman, are nothing but unreal. All
things being unreal, when I began to further
enquire as to which generates which, among these
things, I ceased to have any love for them, like a
traveller, who, when he is convinced of the
undulatory mirage in a desert not being water,
never after craves for it. In trying to find out the
path which will relieve me from the pains of the
unconquerable sensual objects, I am burning
within like an old tree which is consumed within,
through the heat generated by itself through its old
age. This unbearable dire delusion of mine is like a
stone sticking in my gullets. Being afraid lest my
relatives should condemn me for this grief of mine,
(I tried in all manner of ways and yet) I am not able
to get out of it though I cried aloud.‟
Wealth - ‟Like one s family with children, etc., that
will not make happy him who is beset with the
highest of dangers, wealth which only makes hosts
of thoughts to whirl in the brains of men will not
confer bliss. Just as a king allies himself with any
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