Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
like a clear sky in the autumnal season, when the
sun, moon, stars, etc., are clearly visible in the
skies. Again did Kacha visit his father and having
prostrated himself lovingly before him, laid before
him in plaintive tones the fact of his inability to get
quiescence of mind, albeit the complete
renunciation of all things. Thus did he consult his
father who gave him the following advice „It is the
opinion of the great that the mind is the all-in-all
and that its mastery leads to the renunciation of all.
Through such a mental abnegation it is, that you
will be able to free yourself from ail pains.‟ So
saying, Brihaspati (Jupiter) vanished.
Thereupon the resplendent Muni Kacha
soliloquised to himself thus „I have been inquiring
as to what mind is and have not been able to come
to any conclusion. If the body with its parts is
different from the mind, then all our efforts to
separate them both are useless; for how can the
separation take place between the mind and the
body, while they are themselves different from one
another?‟All his doubts about mind not being
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