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The collection of yogic insights states that the world is a great disease, birth, death, and change; intense passions and pains, a strange affection. 188 Meaning: - This world is a great disease. It is full of change in the form of birth and death, it produces strange affection and is full of intense passions and pains.
Discussion: This world is a great disease. What kind of disease is it? It is full of change in the form of birth and death, it is full of change like dust and so on; it produces strange affection due to the arising of false belief; and it is full of intense passions and pains due to the attachment to women and so on. What is the disease mentioned above? The author, the great sage, has clarified it here. From the ultimate point of view, the greatest disease in this world is this world itself, that is, the cycle of birth and death. This world is comparable to a great disease; because in terms of its sign, form, cause, distortion, treatment, result, and so on, there are many similarities between the two. It is like this -
Just as a disease attacks the human body and surrounds it from all sides, so too does the disease of the world attack the soul's knowledge-body and surrounds it from all sides. Just as a disease spreads from atom to atom in the body and produces its effect, so too does the disease of the world spread throughout the soul's regions and produces its effect. Just as a disease weakens the body's strength, destroys its vitality, and absorbs its blood, flesh, and other elements, so too does the disease of the world weaken the soul's infinite power, destroys its light and vitality, and absorbs its knowledge, vision, and other elements of its nature. Just as a disease causes a disturbance of the elements, so too does the disease of the world cause a disturbance of the passions, hatred, and other vices. Just as a disease confines a person to bed, makes him dependent and weak, so too does the disease of the world confines the soul to the body, makes it dependent on matter and weak. Just as a disease changes the entire appearance of a person so much that it becomes difficult to recognize him, so too does the disease of the world changes the soul's true appearance so much that it becomes difficult to recognize it.
Just as a disease is a state of ill health, unnatural, unnatural, and distorted for the human body, so too is the disease of the world a state of ill health, unnatural, unnatural, and distorted for the soul. Just as a disease is an unhealthy state of the human body, so too is the disease of the world an unhealthy state of the soul. Just as a disease is a punishment for the human body's unnatural, unnatural behavior, for its unrighteousness, so too is the disease of the world a punishment for the soul's unnatural, unnatural behavior, for its unrighteousness. Just as a disease is a punishment for the body's