Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
safe possession of immense wealth without any
rivals; but lo! Yama glides in from some covert
place and puts an end to all their fond cherished
hopes. All the illusions called wife, sons, etc., are
like so many wayfarers who meet together in the
course of a journey. Even Brahmas die in a Kalpa
which is but a moment of time (compared to
eternity). It is absurd on the part of our mind with
its very limited perception of time to attempt to
know anything about the extreme smallness or
greatness of time. All men are subject to diverse
pains only. The really learned are very few in
number. All the manifold Karmas of the different
castes or orders of life generate pains and are
illusory. How then am I to live (amidst such
pains)? Let me walk in that path in which i shall be
freed from all actions, involving me in auspicious
days, great wealth, etc., and become of the nature
of thought itself. All things generating pains in this
world such as dangers, wealth, birth, death and
others perish in the instant of time stated in our
books of computation. A brave warrior dies at the
hands of a coward and a hundred persons die
through one man s hand. How men of cringing
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