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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
appropriate to „I‟ all the things of the universe and
disports itself with great mirth and joy in the
spacious forest of the body. It has as its young
ones, the dire Indriyas (or organs) full of anger and
greed. It will articulate through its sweet tongue
and perform its actions by being merged into the
forest of the mind. The terrific and dire twin
Karmas (good and bad) are its two tusks. The
Vasanas are the rutting waters shed by it. It has a
body which ranges everywhere and at all times.
All the visible objects of Samsara are the battle field
wherein the carnage takes place; the powerful
desires being no other, as said before, than the
elephant. This rutting elephant of desires which
again and again invests persons with victory or
defeat, puts an end to the myriads of poor Jivas.
All the firm Vasanas having their own
modifications, existence, Manas, Buddhi, Sankalpa,
desires and the rest pertain to Antahkarana, the
lower mind only. It is most conducive to the
progress of a Jnani to conquer fearlessly by all
means and as if in sport, this elephant of desires
which is but a combination of all, through sheer
might and the arrows of dauntless bravery. If
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