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Frail is this body, impure and of impure origin, a transitory residence and a vessel of suffering.
Transient like the flash of lightning are life and beauty which ye love so much. Will ye not comprehend the next?
Even for a moment I delight not in this body which is vain-an abode of distress and disease and one which can be seized by infirmity and death.
I delight not in this body which sooner or later I must forsake. Evanescent it is as a bubble or foam.
Birth is suffering, infirmity is suffering, so is disease and so death. Ah ! nothing but suffering is this world in which men pass through an endless travail.
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Suratww.umaragyanbhandar.com
