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"I interrupted him and asked: 'By Dharana you preserved long life,
while other Yogis perished?'
"The long-lived one answered: 'No, they did not perish, but they
got tired of the burden of the human body and gave it up at will.'
The Yoga Vashist is available in two forms, a shot version
known as Laghu Yoga Vashishta and a longer version known as
Dirgha Yoga Vashishta. This translation by Rishi Singh Gherwal,
who is also author of many other books, is of the short version.
The Yoga Vashisht deals with many important ethical and
spiritual concepts of Hinduism in the form of a long
conversations between Lord Rama and sage Vashishta.
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Source: Yoga Vashisht -or- Heaven Found
by Rishi Singh Gherwal, Author of Great Masters of the Himalayas
Their Lives and Temple Teaching. Kundalini The Mother of
the Universe and etc. Copyrighted and Published By Author
[1930]. This text has been originally digitized by John
Bruno Hare, September 2008 and reformatted for the online
edition at Hinduwebsite.com by Jayaram V April 2009. This
text is in the public domain in the US because its copyright
was not renewed in a timely fashion at the US copyright
office at required by law at the time. |
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