Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
listen to the characteristics of these two aspirants
for enjoyment and Moksha. Not caring for the
glorious Moksha, the first class will estimate
greatly the worldly path and will perform actions
therein with great certitude of mind. Their
tendencies will be towards the vast enjoyments of
the world. Such a path will render them liable to
fresh re-births, generating discrimination to all.
Like a tortoise thrusting its neck into the hole of an
yoke floating on the surface of an ocean, he
incarnates in repeated re-births associated with the
dire organs and then through discrimination
developed in them, begins to contemplate thus
„These dire re-births have been utterly fruitless.
Enough of the (worldly) delusion. Of what avail
are these Karmas? All my days have been vainly
spent in them. If there is a diminution in these
excessive Karmas, then all pains will cease.‟ He
who has an indomitable heart to find out this seat,
will abandon quite (the world), and become a
Nivarta (or freed personage). Engaged in ceaseless
enquiry, overcoming all illusions and contriving
means to cross this Samsara, such a person will
every moment of his life be engaged in the
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