Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
obdurate than a huge diamond.‟ „It is possible to
drink up the contents of the ocean, eradicate (the
mountain) Mahameru to its root or swallow the
flaming fire; but it is impossible to control this
mind of ours. It is the one cause of the generation
of all objects. This perishable universe exists only
when the mind exists but disappears with the
absence of the latter. Therefore the mind should be
annihilated. All the host of pains and pleasures
which are like mountain fastnesses arise through
the mind only. Hence I conclude they will perish,
should the mind perish through stainless
discrimination.‟
Desires - „The pack of owls called passion and
anger play in the Akasaof Atman during the night
of restless desires enveloped with the intense
gloom of dire delusion. All my much longed-for,
virtuous actions are entirely gnawed away by my
desires like a fiddle string by a rat. Being without a
mind of Atman Jnana, I am enmeshed by them,
like a bird caught in a trap and droop thereby. The
fire of desires has scalded me quite. In my present
state, I do not think that even a bath in ambrosia
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