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The collection of wrong views and the attachment to this perishable body, for which these poor souls endure so much suffering and toil, this attachment to the body becomes a bondage for them!
Because the body with which they have such a strong attachment, how can that body not also become a bond in return for the suffering it endures? Is it ungrateful? Is it grateful? Therefore, due to the self-consciousness in the body, they cannot detach themselves from the body; as long as they are bound, birth and death do not cease; as long as birth and death do not cease, suffering does not cease; and as long as this birth, death, and suffering do not cease, the cycle of samsara does not cease. Thus, for the sake of maintaining their relationship with this body, which they consider to be their own, these unfortunate souls, like oxen burdened with toil, continue to wander in the path of samsara, lamenting their fate! Shriman Pujyapaad Swami ji has said:
“In the body, the self-consciousness binds the soul to that body with certainty; and in the true self, the self-consciousness separates the soul from the body. Due to the self-consciousness in the body, the illusions of son, wife, etc., are born in the body. And due to those illusions, the soul, with its self-consciousness, considers the wealth of the father to be its own. Alas! This unfortunate world has been destroyed! The root of the suffering of samsara is the self-consciousness in the body. Therefore, by severing this self-consciousness in the body, and not allowing the senses to be active in the external world, one should enter within.” But the unfortunate souls have self-consciousness in the body. And due to this perverse and inverted consciousness, they become bound to the body and suffer the cycle of samsara. Thus, it is clear that from this perversion arises ignorance, from ignorance arises the wrong perception of the present, and from wrong perception arises the suffering of samsara.
जन्ममृत्युजराव्याधिरोगशोकायुपद्रुतम् । वीक्षमाणा अपि भवं नोद्विजन्तेऽतिमोहतः ।। ७९ ।।
Commentary: - Birth, the manifestation of which is birth, death, the cessation of life, old age, the loss of youth, disease, illness, etc., suffering, intense pain caused by fear, grief, etc., due to the loss of loved ones, etc., and the word "aayupadruta" refers to the suffering caused by the elements, etc. Even seeing all this, they do not worry because of their extreme delusion.
देहे स्वबुद्धिरात्मानं युनत्त्येतेन निश्चयात् । स्वात्मन्येवात्मधीस्तस्माद्वियोजयति देहिनम् ।।
देहेष्वास्मधिया जाताः पुत्र भार्यादिकल्पनाः । सम्पत्तिमात्मनस्ताभिर्मन्यते हा हतं जगत् ॥ मूलं संसारदुःखस्य देह एव आत्मधीस्ततः । त्यत्क्वैर्ना प्रविशेदन्तर्बहिरव्यापृतेन्द्रियः ।।
- Shri Samadhishatak,