Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
detained and tested in another place for seven
days, he was con ducted to the harem in the palace
and was there sumptuously fed upon the choicest
viands of six tastes and treated with flowers,
sandal and other objects of enjoyment by
handsome ladies of slender waist. And yet Suka
who was like a cool full-moon was indifferent to
the dark or bright aspect of these enjoyments. So
that neither the happiness arising from the
enjoyments to which Suka was exposed by the king
nor the pains flowing out of the disgrace to which
he was subjected did affect, in the least, the mind
of this great Muni. Will ever the soft, noble zephyr
be able to agitate Meru, the grandest of mountains?
Observing the internal exultation of the Muni s
heart (unruffled by the externals), the king saluted
and eulogised the Muni and then addressed him
thus: „Oh Brahmarshi, who has attained the highest
fruit, having given up all worldly concerns, please
tell me what business has wafted you here.‟
At which Suka questioned him thus „How did
Maya arise? How does it grow? And how is it
destroyed? Please, oh guru, explain them to me
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