Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
conduces to re-birth. The enlightened mind
receives a degree of bliss commensurate with the
loss of desire for objects. I have obtained bliss only
through successive victories over my desires. I am
free from the bondage of delusion. I have now
attained through your grace the perfect
renunciation, and am divested of everything. What
else remains to be done, O Muni?
Kumbha-Muni replied: Alas! You have not
renounced anything. All your delusive
renunciations are in vain. On this the King
reflected and said: There is left with me only this
body composed of white bones and flesh, in which
the serpents of the five sense-organs hiss. I shall
instantly dispose of it without care. You shall soon
see. So saying, he ascended to the summit of a high
cliff, and was about to cast himself down, when the
supreme Kumbha-Muni arrested him with these
words: „what is this folly that you are about to do?
How, O ignorant man, did this body of yours
hinder your progress? How will death in any way
help you? Though you should fall down and
destroy this body, like a bull that is angry with a
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