Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
the Queen of the Saurastra country, who resembled
the peacock in beauty, and could not in the space
of the whole world find one to compare with her in
her imperishable virtue. And these two lived
together in perfect happiness with their two minds
interblended performing all actions without the
least difference of opinion, having mastered all the
departments of knowledge. Delightfully indeed
they passed their youth, as if but one breath of life
pervaded in common their bodies. As the years
glided sweetly by, their ephemeral youth passed
away like water from a broken pot, and middle age
fell upon them, like flakes of snow on lotuses in the
waters of a rivulet. Like water trickling from the
palm of the hand, so their lives sped away, day by
day. Then the desires, which had in youth
expanded themselves more and more like a gourd
plant that grows in the rainy season, ever winding
itself round and round, began to lessen like waters
in the time of autumn. All the pleasures that once
Buddhi, the Atmic Ray. It is Chudala who though the wife of
Sikhidhwaja yet initiates him into Jnana. Sikhidhwaja means one
having the peacock flag. Careful students will understand from the
colour of the peacock that he typifies the higher Manas.
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