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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
Vasistha replied: Muni Kacha, the son of
Brihaspati, who had known the substratum of all
things through a know ledge of the higher seat,
approached the Deva-guru, his father for
enlightenment upon the best means of divorcing
the dire elephant of Prana from the care of
mundane existence.
Deva-guru said thus „This large expanse of the
ocean of births, wherein do live the countless hosts
of crocodiles, fishes, etc., can be bridged over only
by the incomparable power of all-renunciation,
involving great troubles and responsibilities.‟ At
these words of his father, Kacha abdicated all
things and retiring into the forest, lived there for
eight years, at the end of which period, he was
visited by his father. Having greeted his father
with due respects, he asked him the reason why in
spite of the renunciation of all for about eight
years, his mental pains had not subsided- To which
his father replied merely that he should give up
everything and departed. After the departure of his
father, he denied himself of even the barks of trees,
cloths, etc., he had on. Thus was he stark naked,
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