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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
the best of means. Therefore, you shall hear from
me, how Ikshwaku 138, the foremost and the first
king of your race, managed to attain Jnana, the
Moksha. While the graceful king was ruling over
the seeming earth through the path of the ancients,
he held secret communion within himself thus
„What is the stainless cause of this world teeming
with dotage and death, pleasures and pains,
fancies and misconceptions, etc., beyond number?‟
In spite of his deep thought over the same, he was
unable to solve it.
Therefore having visited and paid due respects to
the Lord, the first Manu 139 who came down from
Satya-loka, he addressed him thus Oh mine of
mercy who deigned to descend easily to this earth
from Satya-loka, vouchsafe to enlighten me as to
my real self through the attaining of the eternal
and the giving up of pains. Whence the origin of
this universe? What is its form? How long does it
last? To whom does it owe its origin? At what
138 He was the first of the Solar Kings and Son of the present Manu
Vaivasvata.
139 Swayambhu Manu
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