Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
upon the hosts of objects, movable and fixed, from
straw up to gold.
Where there is no desire, what is there to feed
upon or to perform or abandon? You are neither
the agent nor the enjoyer. You art alone the
quiescent personage with your mind extinct.
Again, the wise will never grieve for things past, or
about things of the future; but they will perform
their present Karmas duly, and be a master of
them. Pride, illusion and desires are so many
binding- cords of the mind. Through the
discriminative mind, the lower mind is powerfully
mastered by the wise. Having developed much
discrimination, may you destroy the delusions of
the heterogeneous mind through the one pointed
Manas (mind), like an iron severing another iron.
The intelligent cleanse a dirty cloth with the dirty
earth only. A murderous Agni-Astra (missile) is
counteracted by Varunaastra. The venom of
serpent-bite is removed by its antidote of an edible
poison. So also is it in the case of Jiva.
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