Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
quarters in it and dwelt in it with great joy. When
the time of destruction arrived for doing away
with this house and all the other mundane eggs, he
drooped like a dry leaf in a whirlpool of wind. The
usual cries being over, he created a grange for the
Akasa, which having served him for a time
succumbed to time. Thus did he grieve for a long
period over the loss of these many creations of his,
namely house-Akasa, well- Akasa, etc. Now this
personage was no other than an ignoramus in that
he enclosed the Akasa within an earthly tenement
and having identified himself with the house, etc.,
fancied he worked and lived and died with it.
Rama asked: What do you drive at, in this story?
What do you mean by enclosing the Akasa?
Vasistha said: The Mithya-Purusha is no other than
the idea of „I‟ Ahankara arising in the void which is
like a sable-coloured cloud. This Akasa, in which
all the universes exist, is self-existent before
creation, all full and endless. In it the idea of „I‟,
arises like the sense of touch in Vayu (air); and
then this void of Ahankara fancied itself protecting
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