Bhavana Bodh

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

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BHAVANA BODH
therefore advise you to leave this practice of yours to be a recluse or to be Muni -- ascetic with strong self-discipline.
Namiraj :- (Inspired by objects and reasons) Sense pleasures are like pierces, sense pleasures are like poisons, sense pleasures are like serpents, desiring these pleasures people go to hell and there they suffer very much. By anger and pride one takes lower birth and by Maya or illusory behaviour all their good fortunes are vanished, by greed they are afraid of both the worlds this and the other. Therefore, O Brahmin! Do not advise me to follow worldly life of sense pleasures. My heart will never be moved towards worldly life, It will never feel joy in that glamour. Who will knowingly drink poison? Who will like to fall in a well with a lamp? Who will knowingly like to be deluded ? I am not going to return to Mithila accepting poison as beneficial and discarding nector like pleasure and joy of the life of a monk.
Shakrendra was extremely delighted to see the strong steadiness of Maharshi Namiraj. He changed his external form of Brahmin into real form of Indra and then began to praise that Lord Rajarshi with sweet words. "O highly famed! It is great wonder that you have conquered your anger. Wonder, that you have defeated your pride. Wonder, that you have got rid of illusion. Wonder, that you have controlled your greediness. Wonder, your frankness. Wonder, your minelessness. Wonder your prime forgiveness. Wonder your ungreediness. O Venerable ! You are excellent in this birth and you will be excellent in your next birth. Becoming free from your all bondages, you will achieve supreme liberation of your soul". Well praising this way, taking round circles of Rajarshi in mark of veneration, he bowed down at his lotus like feet with great faith and devotion. Then that Indra adorned with beautiful crown, flied away in the sky..
LESSON :- Shakrendra who was testing Namiraj in the guise of a Brahmin, has tried to disuade Namiraj from accepting the life of an ascetic by giving him all possible allurements; he has used his powerful intelligence and skill in discouraging Namiraj in his determination to lead an ascetic's life in preference to worldly life of