Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
on the banks of the Ganges, Just at moon-rise,
Chudala entered a thickset bower hard by and
having created within it, through her Mayavic
power, a lover seated on a pleasant seat of flowers,
she made a show of embracing him. After having
performed the daily rites and sought in vain for his
wife (Madanika) over all the hills and dales, the
king saw on his return his wife and a male figure
in a mutual embrace, but was not in the least
disconcerted. Nearly forty-eight minutes after the
King, who went away unruffled without evincing
the least anger towards Madanika, disappeared
from view, she, in order yet to ob serve his
demeanour appeared before this Raja-yogi with
signs of her late love tryst still visible in her, such
as dishevelled hair, etc., and stood as if penitent in
a submissive attitude of great shame.
While Chudala, surnamed Madanika, was thus
standing as if greatly stricken by grief and remorse,
the King re turned from Samadhi, and saw her
before him. Then, without showing the least
symptoms of anger, he said softly the following
words with calm deliberation: How is it you have
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