Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
functions and outdoes, in its fluctuation, the ocean
waves or a damsel s eyes or the flames of fire or a
lightning flash. It (the infant) feeds itself on offal
like a roving dog and rejoices or weeps at trifles.
Sometimes it eats the dust and invites the moon in
the sky to come near it. Will all this ignorance
constitute bliss? This mischievous period of
infancy which creates terror in the hearts of one s
master, parents, relatives, elders and others is the
source of perpetual fear and a nest replete with
many stains. The bawd of non-discrimination will
find a safe asylum in it. During this period none
enjoys happiness.‟
Youth - „Having crossed this period beset with
many dangers, one reaches the period of youth
liable to another kind of pains and then reels and
droops under the heavy blows dealt by the devil
called Manmatha (the god of love) who lives
(latent) in the hollows of his mind. His noble
intelligence though broadened in its views through
a study of all departments of knowledge, though
illumined in mind through the service of the guru
and though purified through good Karmas will yet
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