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"The collection of ailments, the bent back, the bones gone, the body's color faded, the ability to rise gone, the walking stick taken away; Oh, King Chandra! Even youth is lost, but the mind, even that, has lost its motherly affection."
Similarly, when chronic diseases like leprosy, etc., or acute ailments like cholera, etc., which cause intense pain, attack this body, when they forcefully shake this body and surround it from all sides, then this father's body becomes extremely unbearable, and sometimes the desire to leave it arises, such unbearable pain is experienced here. When these ailments appear, the desire to leave arises;
"You consider this body yours, but it is not yours." - Poet Shri Dalpatram.
And when separation from a beloved object or association with an undesirable thing occurs, the inner sorrow in the form of grief gives extreme anguish to the heart. One desires - "I did not get the desired object,
Oh, alas! I did not get this, this was attached to me, it went away leaving me empty-handed," such inner anguish arises.
Or, if a beloved person like a relative dies due to death, etc., then one grieves, saying, "Oh! He is gone, how will I live without him?" Or, if an undesirable event like illness, loss of wealth, or loss of honor occurs, then one also grieves, saying, "Oh! How will this undesirable event go away? When will I be relieved from this difficulty?" In this way, in this world, due to the separation from the beloved or the association with the undesirable, the inner sorrow arising from grief, like a worm, eats away the heart of the living being. This is the living word picture of all these:
The unbearable pain that arises from a young, delicate person being pierced by a needle all over his body, is eight times less than the pain that a living being experiences when it resides in the womb. For almost nine months,
in the state of fainting, immersed in feces, urine, saliva, pus, etc., it is born with a mixture of pain, sorrow, and happiness. At the time of birth, infinite times more pain and sorrow are produced than the pain of the womb. After that, childhood is reached. In the state of nakedness, with feces, urine,
dust, and without understanding, it cries and wanders around, and childhood is completed, and youth arrives. To earn wealth, one has to fall into minor sins, from which the tendency towards worldly desires arises. Madness, laziness, pride, contemptuous vision, association, separation, thus youth passes in a whirlwind.