Treasury of Jain Tales

SR No.: 006762
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: V M Kulkarni
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 468
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

Page 94

39 He spoke to Sambhuta: "Hear ! desist from the impure resolution; for the enjoyments of pleasure are unsubstantial, terrible in their consequences, the causes of wandering about in the samsära. Even while they are being enjoyed they cause very great disturbance; and sorrow in reality is their nature. The idea that there is pleasure in them is the manifestation of delusion and it has been said: As the scabby man, scratching his scab, deems pain a pleasure, so men fevered with delusion call the pain of sensual enjoyment a pleasure."
Citra also pointed out the impure nature of the human body and tried to convince him that such a body which is the abode of all diseases should not have infatuated a man like him who is to be considered foremost among ascetics. He wondered how the human body
"Sprung from semen and blood, caused to grow by impure fluids, consisting of skin, blood, flesh, fat, bones, marrow and semen, dripping impure fluids from nine openings for fluids, a store house of filthiness"
can be charming to an enlightened mind like his. It is only so in appearance.
"There are an ädhaka of blood, half an adhaka of fat, a kudava of bile and phlegm, and half as much of semen, seven hundred veins, nine hundred sinews- in such a body there is no purity. "Delicious food and drink and the most excellent dainties and sweetmeats, they all grow impure by coming in contact with the body. "The finest garment, the finest flower, the finest perfume and ointment (or unguent), the finest bed and seat are destroyed by the contact with) the body. "IIl-smelling moisture continually flows on the teeth and impure fluid in the mouth and sticking mucus in the nose. "Only marrow runs in the bones, nasty filth in the ears,