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Mūlāchāra
Meaning - In this world, it is difficult to obtain one's desired objects due to suffering; being bound by killing and other fears, they are temporary and devoid of essence. The sensual pleasures obtained through enjoyment also lead to suffering; therefore, they are inauspicious. (722)
In the impure womb, dwelling in a covered body, one consumes the mother's nourishing substance, which is full of the intense, inauspicious taste. (723)
Meaning - This soul dwells in a fetus filled with urine and excrement, clinging to the womb, and consumes the thick, foul, nutritive substance derived from the mother. (723)
With flesh, bones, mucus, fat, blood, skin, bile, intestines, urine, and feces as the abode, such a body, which is a receptacle of much suffering and disease, you should recognize as impure. (724)
Meaning - Recognize this body, made of flesh, bones, mucus, fat, blood, skin, bile, intestines, urine, and excrement, as an impure receptacle of much suffering and disease. (724)
Thus, from the sensual body and similar states, everything is inauspicious; knowing this, one should feel disgust and meditate on how to discard this impure body. (725)
Meaning - Recognizing that everything, including the sensual body, is inauspicious, one should feel disillusioned and meditate on how to abandon this impure body. (725)
1. Meaning - Women, clothing, wealth, and similar forms of sensual enjoyment are all inauspicious.