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can go for refuge. 3) I come alone, am all alone, and go alone from this world. 4) I am apart from my near and dear ones, my possessions and my body. 5) This body is full of impurity. 6) My Ātman has been housed in myriads of bodies in the course of its infinite cycles of birth and rebirth. 7) To understand the many ways and things that lead to the formation of Karmas. 8) To understand that which leads to the stoppage of the inflow of Karmas. 9) To understand that which leads to the destruction of Karmas. 10) To understand the nature of the cosmos wherein my multifarious cycles of birth and rebirth have taken place. 11) The path of the Religion expounded by the Omniscient is the only way to cross this world of birth and rebirth. 12) How difficult it is to attain perfect wisdom.
151. The meditation of Anitya Bhāvanā: In this world every thing is impermanent and transitory; meeting and living with people of one's choice and liking, prosperity, the pleasures of the sense objects, wealth, good health, one's body, one's youth and life span - all this is impermanent - subject to change and destruction.
152. The meditation of Aśaraņa Bhāvanā : This world is frightening because there is a continuous process of birth, oldage and death, which is filled with tribulations and anxieties of disease and pain. In such a state of existence, there is none and nothing whose shelter one can take - except having the refuge of the words of the Omniscient.
153. The meditation of Ekatva Bhāvanā: Each person (Jīva to be exact), is born alone and dies alone. He also takes birth in good and evil states of existence during the infinitely long cycles of birth and rebirth, by himself alone. Thus each person should by himself alone, do that which is beneficial to himself (i.e. for his Ātman).
