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CHAPTER 3
EXPOSITION OF MISERIES OF MUNDANE EXISTENCE AND BLISS OF
LIBERATION
दोहा : सो निजभाव सदा सुखद, अपनै करो प्रकाश ।
जो बहुविधि भवदुखनिको, करिहै सत्ता नाश ॥ (Since) the nature of self soul is always blissful, thou ought to emit the light of self which will destroy the existence of the different the forms of miseries of mundane existence.
Many types of miseries are found in this Sansara (mundane existence); these are being narrated here, for if there be happiness in Sansara also, why should then we make effort for liberation from Sansara ? Since there are several kinds of miseries in this Sansara so efforts are to be made for liberation.
As a physician, by making diagnosis of disease and describingits condition, convinces the patient about his disease and thereafter creates interest in him for its treatment; similarly, here also by making diagnosis of Sansara and describing its condition, (Acharya) convinces the mundane being of his Sansara - disease and creates interest in him for making efforts to get rid of it.
For example, the patient is suffering from the disease but does not know its root cause, does not know the right treatment and also cannot bear the pain. Then, whatever appears to be the right treatment he takes it; therefore, the misery does not come to an end, then tormentedly, being helpless, he bears those pains; when the physician tells him the root cause of pain, tells the nature of the pain, proves all his efforts wrong, then he gets interested in making the right effort. Similarly, the mundane being is suffering from Sansara (transmigratory existence) but does not know its root cause, does not
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