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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
illusory manner, pains will not in the least come in
contact with such a person.
There is a mad rutting elephant with tusks, like
unto a white shell, which, showering rutting water
as it goes, stalks with a beautiful gait with its long
writhing proboscis spotted with white. If this
animal which generates never-ceasing pains be
slain, then mankind will cross with you all the
various stages of the above mentioned Jnana. So
long as this tremendous elephant oozing out
rutting water be not slain through one s might,
who will become a great warrior in the field of
battle (in this universe) replete with pains?
At these words of Vasistha, Rama of the form of
grace accosted him thus: What is this powerful
elephant you acquainted me with? where is the
field of battle? How can it be annihilated? What is
its residence?
To which Vasistha replied thus: This grand
elephant showering rutting water is no other than
the pains-genera- ting desires that ever try to
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