Bhavana Bodh

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

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BHAVANA BODH
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uprooted tree; they cry because they lost their happiness.
Brahmin :- O king! But see how the raging fire helped by: powerful winds, is ablaze in your whole city, palace and temples. Therefore you go there and quell the raging fire.
Namiraj :- O Brahmin! Nothing of mine bums by burning Mithila city, my palace or my temples; I behave as I feel happy. Nothing is mine in all these objects you described above as mine. I have nothing which I can really call mine in the burning temples etc. I have already relinquished my family and all the rest, my sons, my wife and I have cut off all my relations with them. Nothing of all these is either attracting or not attracting to me.
Brahmin :- O you King but ! You fortify your city by a solid fortress with proper inlet doors with strong closing and locking arrangements and get prepared a wide ditch of water all around that fortress and then you can go.
Namiraj : - (Inspired by objects and reasons) O Brahmin! I will prepare a city of pure faith with SAMVAR as its locking arrangment and will prepare forgiveness as the city's holy fortress and it will have compartments in the form of holy mental yogic disciplines and I shall prepare the ditches all around my fortress by the control of my
ech and prepare body control as missile to destroy hundreds of enemies of the soul. I shall take valour as my bow with its string as IRYA SAMITI, I will have patience as the arch to hold arrowstring and by truth I will tie this arrow in the form of penance and with such arrows I will be victorious over the enemies in the form of worldly bondages. I have no desire of engaging in physical battle or warfare. I only wish to undergo mental warfare as described above.
Brahmin :- (Inspired by objects and reasons) O King! You first get ready tall buildings with beautiful cony tops as your residences and put in them air holes decorated with diamonds and other costly golden articles as also get ready beautiful palaces in the ponds for your sport and then you can take to non-attachment or renunciation
Namiraj :- (Inspired by objects and reasons) Whatever kinds