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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
meaning as they are mystical like those pertaining
to Paramartha (the reality of the Higher Self).
Therefore please inform me plainly of your origin/
To which Chudala, the Brahmin s son, continued to
reply: Then, having fastened the must-elephant of
the ever-fluctuating mind to the great pillar of true
discrimination with the strong rope of love by the
aid of the goad of true intelligence, the Muni
N3rada (caused that to be done, which produced
the embryo). Then the embryo began to grow like
the luxuriant moon in the Milky Ocean. Having
been endowed by Narada with a never-failing
wealth of knowledge and other gifts, I, who issued
out of the Pot, as the son of Narada, was taken over
to the presence of Brahma, who, as in duty bound
to me, his own grandson, paved my way to the
attainment of the goal of Brahma-Jnana.
Immediately my grandfather called me by the title
of Kumbha-Muni, as I was born in a Kumbha 132
132 This probably refers to the advent of all egos which are so only
through their limitation, just as things are deposited in a limited
receptacle as that of a pot. Hence, Chudala does not make a false report
of herself, as in describing- the origin of all egos she describes that of
herself too. Kumbha-Muni is the name of Agastya Rishi.
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