Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
up all your ignorance and resume the regal duties
once relinquished by you. Let us both wield the
sceptre of our kingdom for some time as
Jivanmuktas and then attain Videhamukti, after the
body is thrown aside. To this the King acquiesced.
Then Chudala rose up and, through dint of her
concentrated San- kalpa, she acted as follows: She
then and there first anointed him by bathing him in
jewelled vessels full of the waters of the seven
oceans, and then, having installed him on an
effulgent throne bedecked with rubies, etc., blessed
him with a long life. Then the King and his wife
Chudala, who were both of one mind, mounted
upon a decorated elephant and went back to their
town with their four-fold army amidst great
rejoicings. As soon as they reached the outskirts of
their town, the four-fold army in their town came
in advance to meet them. Thus both the armies
joined together and went gaily along. There the
King reigned with true love along with his wife for
I0000 years, and then attained a disembodied
emancipation.
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