Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
one afflicted with pains what are they? May you
destroy them! Never will persons of true Jnana
succumb to despondency or joy. Will water
floating on a lotus leaf ever affect it? At these
words of the King, Kumbha-Muni related the
following amusing anecdote of himself in tones as
musical as the Vina.
Persons of firm and equal vision as regards all
things will never constitute Jnanis (the wise),
unless they commingle with the actions of the
Indriyas (organs), as long as they possess a body.
Otherwise, such persons are only impostors. Those
who are so ignorant as not to perform the existing
Karmas and think of mastering them through their
avoidance, will only generate fresh ones and suffer
therefrom; i.e., like the oil which is inseparable
from the sesame seed, the different Avasthas
(states) of pains will exist so long as there is the
body. Those who try to sever themselves from
these states, in order to do away with affection,
etc., are, O King, like one endeavouring to rend
asunder the immeasurable Akasa with a sword. If
the inevitable pains of this impure body be sought
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