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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
much, I have now come here to you. I shall
hereafter every night have to submit myself to this
process of transformation into a woman 136. „How
can I, without being ashamed, be a female every
night, moving as I do in the company of my Gurus,
Devas, Munis and hosts of others?‟ But the King
solaced him thus: Please, god, do not be afraid.
What is the use of giving way to grief? Let come
what may through the dire force of the irresistible
Law. This womanhood of thine will, I think, not
attach itself to the Ego within, but only to the body
without. It behoves you not thus to give way to
grief, you who art replete with Jnana. It is only the
ignorant that are afflicted in mind. Then the sun
began to set as if to hasten the wise Kumbha-Muni
to assume a female form. With the coming of
twilight they performed all their daily religious
Karmas. Then the Muni looked into the face of the
King, who was sitting before him, and remarked
thus in a plaintive tone: To my great shame, be it
spoken, King, a female form is enveloping me and
my present form is disintegrating itself. The
136 This is to try the King, being the first trial.
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