Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
them up (at night). He also strings in a rope of
three 8 gunas, even the gems of the highest men of
the universe, and makes them his prey. In this
dilapidated dwelling of the small universe, he
collects, in the casket of Death, all the worldly men
scattered everywhere in it like rubies. Having
hunted all the egos of beasts, birds, etc., in the great
forest of this essenceless universe, he, at last,
during the Maha- kalpa, sports in the tank of the
great ocean filled with lotus of the shining Vadava
fire. This personage of Time has, in the repast
made of the diverse created worlds, all the living
ones as his dainties of the six tastes such as
bitterness, etc., and the incomparable seven seas of
milk, clarified butter, etc., as his beverage; and
cycles round and round in the objects created at
every Mahakalpa.‟
Destructive Sakti – „This invulnerable and
destructive Sakti (potency of Brahman) does away
with the universe with all its moving and fixed
objects and reigns triumphant like a tigress in the
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The 3 ingredients of Prakriti or matter.
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