Bhavana Bodh

Author(s): Shrimad Rajchandra
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram

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BHAVANA BODH
discourses that worldly life is unqualifiedly full of indefinite sorrow and suffering and so extremely painful and harmful. O noble souls, do not get lost in worldly life by its sweet attractions; be free from it! be free from it !!
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Not even for a fraction of a moment, Mahavir advises people to take interest or to get attached to the worldly life. In all his discourses, he has demonstrated it very well and he has proved its truth by implementing the same in his own life. His gold coloured beautiful body, with Yashoda as his queen, possessed of incalculable wealth in the form of being the ruler of a mighty empire and having close relatives as full of vigours and valour - all these enticing things he left off and followed the path of spiritual insight and real knowledge and yogic meditation. This is very rare and quite unusual and unprecedented and so he is above comparison with the great seers known to history. The same secret is brought to light by him through the mouth of a philosophic inquirer in the presence of Kapil Kevali in the first couplet of 8th lesson of the holy Uttaradhyan Sutra as under:
"ADHUVE ASASAYAMMI SAMASARAMMI DUKHAPAURAE, KIM NAMA HUJJA KAMMAM JENEHAM DUGGAI NA GACHHIJJA"
This worldly life is unsteady, momentary and never everlasting and it is full of innumerable kinds of miseries. What doings should I do by which I may not invite my downfall? Replying in the same spirit to this beautiful question, Kapil Muni continues his teaching as under :
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ADHUVE ASASAYAMMI These sayings result from the lightning speed of renunciation and non-attachment constantly experienced by the Lord of all Yogis - Mahavir who resigned from all activities and so they are the spiritual gift-the essence of highest philosophy. The world highly praises an exceptional intelligent person and yet such persons abandon the world and its allurements. This is really a praise worthy miracle. Such exceptionally intelligent persons in the last, take to spiritual flights and following the path of yogic concentration and meditation, cut the cover of darkness surrounding their real self. Philosophers are