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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
It is desires that make the deep inner man manifest
itself externally, like radiant damsels wearing
golden bracelets or diseases or the rays of the sun
which make the lotus bud blossom forth (and
appear externally). These desires of the mind
which are like a diamond point or a sharp-poinetd
sword or like the sparks of iron emitted out of fire
will, in one moment, reduce to nothing those men
great as Mahameru or the handsome wise men or
the courageous or warriors or any others.‟
„This body which is composed of the cool
intestines, muscles, etc., and is subject to changes,
being at one time fat and at another time lean,
shines in this mundane existence simply to
undergo pains. What more palpably fruitless, paingiving
and degraded thing could be conceived of
than this body which oscillates with pains or
pleasures through the increase or decrease of the
experiences of objects? Of what avail is this body
whether eternal or otherwise, liable to pains and
pleasures which house is tenanted by Ahankara,
the householder having the ten mischievous cows
of Indriyas (or the organs), the servant of Manas
(mind) producing San- kalpa, and his partner of
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