Bhavana Bodh

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

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BHAVANA BODH
Malaya mountain. Soon the sandalwood was brought in and all ladies in the harem, began to rub sandlewood on different slabs of strong stones but in doing so the golden bangles of their hands began to rattle and made in total very big noise. The King of Mithila, the patient, was already suffering from the pain, caused by increasing burning fever and his pain increased by this noise of bangles which rattled, while the ladies wearing them, were rubbing the sandlewood for applying its pulp to the king's body to cure it off the burning fever. He could not bear the noise of moving bangles and so he ordered the ladies to stop rubbing sandlewood. He said he could not bear the noise at all. The noise was adding to his disease. On this advice ,every lady took out bangles from her hands, keeping only one bangle as a sign of her married life and then by reducing noise, continued to rub the sandlewood on slabs of stones. Namiraj asked his queens as to whether they stopped rubbing sandlewood to which they replied, 'no', they said they only took out all the bangles, keeping only one bangle on each of their two hands so that the whole noise of rattling bangles is stopped. Since we have no collection of bangles on our hands, there is no reason for occuring the noise. Hearing these words from his queens, Namiraj experienced the effect of oneness or loneliness thoroughly. He felt being alone , like the one bangle on each hand of his queens and his sense of mineness or possession was totally gone. Really, more things gather together, more trouble they bring; just see a group of golden bangles on every hand, created in total an unbearable noise by their movements, while one on every hand created no noise.
O consciousness! You should now realise that only in your loneliness there is real paradise. The more you have, the more you suffer. Where is the need for you to keep contact with many friends, relatives and other things of this worldly life? Leave it altogether and adopt loneliness, just see how this, one bangle enjoys peace of loneliness! how did it suffer noise when it was in contact with many bangles ! Similarly O you self, you are also like the golden bangle. So long as you revel in contacts of many