Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
spend their lives in ceaseless Atmic enquiry,
without wasting their time like such base things as
trees, beasts or birds. The lives of those who have
freed themselves from rebirths are the true ones
and the noblest; but others lives are like those of
old asses. In the case of persons without
discrimination, learning is a burden to them; in the
case of persons without quiescence (of mind), their
mind is a burden to them; but in the case of
persons having passion and other stains, Atman
Jnana is a burden to them. In the case of persons
who have not enjoyed the bliss in their own Self,
the beautiful body, life, Manas, Buddhi, Ahankara,
actions, etc., are intolerable burdens to them like
those of a carrier. Life after associating itself with
this body departs out of it even while young, like
the wise who shun the association with the wicked.
There is nothing as baneful as this life which is
perishable in its nature and fleeting in the bestowal
of pleasures.‟
Ahankara - „I am much terrified by the enemy of the
illusory and harmful Ahankara (I-am-ness or
egoism) which is generated through delusion and
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