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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
progeny and wealth), having relinquished your
wealth in favour of your enemies as well as your
Ahankara and having given up your avocations
and living on the alms of your enemies if thus you
live without any load on your mind, you may be
come Brahman, the Supreme of Supreme.
Having heard these words of the Muni,
Bhageeratha of mountain-like shoulders was
performing diverse actions with a view to control
his mind. After the lapse of some time, he
performed a noble Yajna called Agnishtoma; and
all his justly accumulated wealth was spent, after
the enquiry of the deserving and the nondeserving,
amongst poor Brahmins of divine
intents, relatives and others who came over there.
In three days, he was left with nothing but a single
cloth. Amidst the deafening cries of his subjects
and all others, he abdicated his beloved country in
favour of his enemy and being replete with all the
good qualities of a Muni, wandered alone as such a
personage. Fearlessly did he rove over old towns,
hills and forests wherein the citizens had not
known him through his face or name. In a short
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