Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
serpent in a rope will be removed except through
the discovery of the real rope? But those grievous
diseases of the body, which do not arise through
the original cause, can be extirpated by mantras,
medicine and the many means proposed by men
well-versed in medical lore I need not expatiate
upon this subject any further here.‟
Here Rama asked Vasistha how mental diseases
arise and how they are destroyed. Vasistha thus
proceeded: - „When the fixed Manas is agitated,
then this body also follows in its wake. And when
the body is agitated, then there is no proper
perception on things that are in one s way and
Prana flies from its even path into a bad road: then
it will stagger from its proper road like an animal
hit by, and reeling under the wound of, an arrow.
Through such an agitation Prana instead of
pervading the whole body, steadily and equally,
will vibrate everywhere at an unequal rate.
Thereby the Nadis will not maintain a steady
position (like electric wires, but will quiver). Then
to the body which is the receptacle of food digested
partially or completely, the Nadis are simply
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