Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
that the giving up of the many worldly things does
not amount to renunciation, and that I have yet
desires in me, then what I have left is this forest
alone. Therefore do I now renounce my longing for
the forest full of hills and trees. Hence I suppose I
have made the true renunciation. Kumbha-Muni
then said: Even the abandoning of this hilly and
luxuriant forest does not affect the true
renunciation. You have yet the painful desires in
themselves. Only when they depart from you, can
you obtain and enjoy the Supreme happiness. To
which the king replied that, if this was not enough,
he would lay aside his cloth, Rudraksha (garland),
deer-skin, earthen vessels, and wooden-bowl. So
saying, he consigned them all to the fire, and
rejoiced in his entirely new appearance. Then
turning to Kumbha-Muni of eternal Jnana with the
comment that he had now stripped himself of all
desires, the king Said: „it is through your divine
self alone that I have acquired right understanding,
liberated myself from all pains, and freed myself
from contamination. Through my Sankalpa I have
given up all these things entirely. The innumerable
things of this world lead only to bondage which
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