Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
significant marks of a female are developing
themselves in me. Behold my waist forming itself,
the female dress gradually covering my body, and
the remainder of the female form appearing in all
its entirety. Thus did the quiescent Kumbha-Muni
deliver himself, as if in terms of grief. The King
beholding his despondent Guru, thus said: As a
Jnani you have known well the true path of Law.
While so, do not be afflicted through events which
will inevitably come to pass. To which Kumbha-
Muni said thus: „There is nothing to be done now.
Who can thwart the insurmountable Law? Every
night will but entail on me a female form.
So saying, both quietly slept. With early dawn she
resumed her Kumbha-Muni form. Thus did
Chudala pass some time, the days in the form of
Kumbha-Muni and the nights in the form of a
female; and yet she preserved her virginity. One
noon Chudala in the guise of Kumbha-Muni
addressed thus the King „Oh King, how long am I
to remain in a state of virginity without tasting the
pleasures incidental to the female sex? Therefore I
wish to get at a lord for myself. In all the three
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