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Bhāvanā ( Anuprekṣā ) Sūtra
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3. The sensual pleasures are unable to guard and give shelter
to man and protect him. At times man abandons the sensual pleasures and departs and at other times the material pleasures desert man and leave him in the lurch.
- Sū. Kr. Sū. 2.1.13
4. Wives and sons, friends and relatives live with a person as long as he is alive. None accompanies him after his death.
---- Utta. Sū. 18.14
5. When a person dies, his body is repudiated and taken to
the cremation ground by his sorrowful sons and so will parents do when their sons and relatives die. Oh King ! understand this and practise austerities.
— Utta. Sū. 18.15
Thirty One Reflections on the Impurity of the Body
1. This body is ephemeral, impure and of impure origin. Be
ing subject to all kinds of sorrows and sufferings, it cannot be the eternal abode of the soul.
- Utta. Sū. 19.13
2. And this vain human body, an abode of illness and dis
ease, which is swallowed up by old age and death does not please me even for a moment.
— Utta. Sū. 19.15
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