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Yoga-drishti-samuccaya
“There is no time, no moment, that I can remember from within, where I have not been in this cycle of birth and death, and where I have not lost my samadhi, and where I have not remembered this, and where I have not been given great detachment.”
“Moreover, whose mouth has never said, ‘I will not take this,’ whom I will never take, why was I born in their house as a son, as a daughter, as a servant, as a maidservant, as a small one? That is, I was born in this form due to such hatred! And I did not want it! Tell me, when this is remembered, does this subtle soul not feel disgust? That is, it does.”
—Shrimad Rajchandra, Patranka 115 (128)
Moreover, when death comes, this soul experiences the same unbearable, intense pain. And the body in which it has lived its entire life, and the other attachments that are dependent on that body, when it is left behind, when it is abandoned, the soul experiences extreme internal-mental anguish. Every time it leaves a body, it has to experience this unbearable internal pain due to the impermanence of that body. And it does not want to take on that birth, but it is forced to. Therefore, its inner being is cut off. But all the possessions it considered its own remain there, they do not come with it.
“Moreover, death occurs, without which I cannot live for even a moment, and I leave behind so many things (wealth, etc.), and their separation has lasted for an infinite time; still, living without them is not so surprising. That is, when I had such feelings of attachment, they were imagined. Did such feelings of attachment ever exist? This again and again gives detachment.”
-Shrimad Rajchandra, Patranka 115,
Such a creature, improved by these eight deaths, does not even take refuge in the gods, it
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X 'उपघातस्य घोरेण मृत्युव्याघ्रेण देहिनः ।
तेवा पि न नाचते शरल मुि मानत्राः ।।” Shri Amritchandracharya-ji’s Shri Tattvarthasar
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छात्राग्य मृत्युमूमानामन्तरे फ्युः यियिम् ।।’–Shri Gunabhadra Swami’s Shri Atmanushasan