Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
desires. Therefore, do not blame me for leaving
you thus, and going to the forest Married women,
O well-beloved! Do not oppose the desires of their
husbands. To this Chudala replied: Flowers begin
to blossom in the spring season, while autumn sees
them yielding fruit. Thus do our Karmas begin to
fructify in their due time. If the body should begin
to droop with old age, when bodily desires sub
side, then is the forest a fitting abode. But, at this
period of your life, it is not meet that you should
retire; wherefore it behoves you not to go now. To
this the King made answer; * Do not impede me in
my plans. I will go to the forest for solitude; but as
you are young, it is not proper that yon should
accompany me. You shall reign over the earth
unfailingly in my stead. When a husband goes
from home, it is the wife s duty to protect those
around him, and not to languish at his absence.
Thus saying he retired to his bath. The day being
over, he performed his Sandhyavandhana 130 rites,
and, having quietly slept by his wife upon the
130 The daily prayers wherein the Gayatri and other Mantras are recited
every morning, noon and evening
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