Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
Life - ‟Then Prana (Life) which is like a drop of rain
water dripping from the end of a leaf turned overhead,
flits out of the body, like an idiot at
unseasonable times. It is only by being bitten by
the serpent of the ever-waxing (desires of the five
senses that persons without true Jnana begin to
droop in their minds and thus shorten their lives. I
do not rejoice in this life of mine which darts like a
flash of lightning in the cloud of delusion,
regarding this my limited body as real. It is
possible to cleave the all-pervading Akasa or
restrain the stormy winds or still the waves that
ever and anon arise on the surface of the water hut
to disappear; but by no means is it possible to resist
this desire of life which should not be considered
as permanent. This life is ephemeral like autumnal
clouds or a ghee-less lamp or ocean waves; though
appearing as real, it has not the least of quiescence,
is steeped in boundless ignorance and is devoid of
the true end of human life; if we enquire into its
fruits, we find pains only are generated like unto
the pangs of delivery. That is the noblest life in
which persons, after attaining the highest Atmic
wisdom replete with bliss and free from all*pains,
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