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The body is made of impure elements (semen and menstrual blood), its parts are impure, it makes everything impure, it is the form of sin, and it is the abode of evil deeds. ||189|| It is a vessel with nine openings through which excrement and urine constantly flow, and in the end, this perishable body becomes a mass of worms, ashes from the pyre, and excrement. ||190|| Dwelling in such a body, this foolish being, fueled by all worldly objects, is scorched by the fires of the five senses and, like a Kulingi Yogini, falls into lower realms again. ||191|| The famous fortress of hope, in which this entire world is like an atom, is built within this very body. I want to fill this fortress of hope with a little wealth today. ||192|| Knowing the true nature of the body, which this being takes on to be born into the world and which it abandons to attain liberation, why do intelligent people still nourish it? ||193|| Alas, you have been deceived for a long time by the karma of delusion, for you still do not know the impurity of your body. If this is the case, how can you find the extremely rare abandonment of it? ||194|| In this world, those who are unhappy become happy, those who are happy become unhappy, and many remain unhappy. Similarly, the wealthy become poor, the poor become wealthy, and many remain poor forever. In this way, this being, whether happy or wealthy, does not attain the fourth state and continues to wander in the ocean of existence, bound by the three states mentioned above. ||195-196|| This man desires a woman, that woman desires another man, and the one she desires also desires another woman. This chain of desired and undesired continues...