Bhavana Bodh

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

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BHAVANA BODH
on the feeling of being an orphan in worldly life and so it helps one to sustain and cherish this soul saving aspiration - Asharan Bhavana-- feeling that except one's own soul there is no other saviour from human miseries. Ordinarily speaking many a people in their worldly life are seen suffering miseries as much or more than what Anathi Muni experienced. You think of such miseries and cast aside your state of orphanhood and understand the real protector the best philosophy preached and practised by Vardhaman Mahavir and adopt a fitting life of a non-attached spiritualised soul. In the end that only will save you from all miseries and lead you to self realization. Just as the great Anathi Muni was an orphan while in his worldly life, every living being without the adoption of true enlightenment and right religious discipline is always an orphan. Hence every effort should be made towards being possessed of a protector or saviour and therein lies a living being's true good.
Thus the description of the great knotless ascetic Anathi Muni given for fixing in the aspirant "ASHARAN BHAVANA" the soul saving aspiration comes to an end in the second print of the first vision of this book "BHAVANA BODH".
THIRD PRINT
EKATVA BHAVANA ASPIRATION OF THE LONELINESS OF OUR SOUL
(Upajati poetic form) SHARIR MA VYADHI PRATYAKSHA THAYE, TE KOI ANYE LAI NA SHAKAY; E BHOGAVA EKA SVA ATMA POTE, EKATVA ETHI NAYA SUGNA GOTE.
SPECIAL MEANING :- Whatever pains and troubles are actually experienced in one's body when overpowered by diseases, cannot be taken away by any affectionates, family members, wife or sons. All these diseases are suffered by one's