Atmanushasana

Author(s): J L Jaini
Publisher: Central Jaina Publishing House

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ATMÁNUSHÁSANA.
uneatable at the root, sweet in name, but having no pulp, so the human body(is full of) calamities at intervals (insipid in old age, unenjoyable in infancy), and throughout injured by frightful diseases like hunger, wounds, leprosy, lacera. tion, etc., (good looking in name only, but of no utility). (If such a piece of sugarcane is sowed in the ground, it produces many fruits. Similarly you should) make (this body) here useful without any delay, by making it a seed (to produce, good in) the next world. प्रसुप्तो मरणाशङ्कां प्रबुद्धो जीवितोत्सवम् । प्रत्यहं जनयत्येष तिष्ठेत्काये कियचिरम् ॥ ८२॥ ____82. Every day while sleeping, he wears the appearance of death and while awaking he makes merry on his being alive. Every day produces this (scene). How long can this soul live in the body.
सत्यं वदात्र यदि जन्मनि बन्धुकृत्य. माप्तं त्वया किमपि बन्धुजनाद्धितार्थम् । एतावदेव परमस्ति मृतस्य पश्चात् संभय कायमहितं तव भस्मयन्ति ॥८३॥
83. Say truly if in this life any act whatsoever of fraternal nature has been done thee by thy relatives, for thy good. This is the only good, that after (thy) death having assembled together, (they) cremate thy body, which is (thy) enemy.
जन्मसन्तानसम्पादिविवाहादिविधायिनः। स्वाः परेऽस्य सत्प्राणहारिणो न परे परे ॥४॥
84. One's relatives, who arrange marriage, etc., which cause a series of births are the enemies of the soul. The others who take away life only once, are not enemies. ..
Commentary. Family members involve a person in the meshes, of delusion, and make his spiritual advancement impossible, and thus ruin the future. An enemy only kills the body once, but family members ruin many future lives of the Soul.