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Hence we see that whenever there is an actual act done, or even if there is a desire to act tbat is to say even if there is only a mental act, we will have to assume corporeal form to work out its consequences, good or bad ; that is we will have to be born again, and to live a corporeal life. Now corporeal life is full of pain and misery. Buddha says “ Birth is suffering, old age is suffering, sickness is suffering, to be united with the unloved is suffering, to be sepa. rated from the loved is suffering, not to obtain one desires is suffering, in short the five-fold clinging to the earthly is suffering." Thus the cause of our pain and misery is birth in the corporeal life, which is the result of our actions, which are the consequen. ces of our desires. To destroy, therefore, all pain and suffering, we must stop our re. birth, and to prevent re-birth all acts must cease, for stopping all acts, a complete anni. hilation of desires is essential. The ultimate
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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