Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
will cool me. Like the sable darkness on the New
Moon day, they make the most undaunted of
persons to quail with fear, daze the eye of good
intelligence and create tremors even in the hearts
of the wise of sweet patience. This old harlot of
desires of the nature of the ominous owl, ever
follows persons in the hope of inciting them to earn
wealth but in vain. Like a dancing woman who,
though enfeebled by age, dances in vain without
true joy, all my desires (play in me in a similar
manner and) afflict me. They will try to encompass
things beyond their reach; but even if such things
are within their grasp, they will pass over and
again long for happiness (in other things). Like
monkeys, they roam about without any fixed seat.
Like bees that rejoice, flying from one flower to
another in a garden, they traverse in a moment,
Patala, Akasa and all the eight quarters of the
world. It is these ever-waxing desires that bring on
the pains of re-birth, the heaviest of all pains. The
Devas (celestials) extol disinclination of the mind
(towards desires) as the greatest panacea for the
remedy of the disease of desires which afflict even
those living in palatial mansions guarded by forts.
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