Bhavana Bodh

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

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go on calling it mine, ultimately it is going to give me pain and lead me to nothing. One day my soul will be separated from this body. There is no doubt that when my soul will depart from this body to be born into another body, this body which I hug as mine, will remain here only. When at that time, this body will cease to be mine, to call it mine is sheer folly; Why should I have the sense of mineness in that which is really quite different from my soul? My soul alone is mine. Thus I and my soul are one; the rest are all externals and earlier I know them as such better it is for me. If my body which I call mine, does not remain to be mine, why should I be attached to such a body? It is better to be clear to the fact that the soul and the body it is in, are quite separate from each other. I should think, determine and act accordingly as per this discrimination.
This whole world is full of indefinite number of things and objects or substances; I loved my body more than any or all things of this world and if that body does not behave as mine what else in this world is likely to behave as mine ? Oh, I was deluded very much, I fell down in wrong attribution namely calling that which is not really mine as my body; Neither these young damsels, nor my obedient sons, nor that inclalculable wealth nor that great kingdom of six continents are really mine. Nothing of it should I know or feel as mine. No part of my real being is in any one of these external things, objects or persons. My body, with whose help, I enjoy all these enjoyable things or objects, has not behaved as mine, then how can I call other enjoyed things as mine ? None of my relatives, sons, family members, friends etc are likely to behave as mine. I therefore decide that I do not want this false sense of calling body and other externals as mine. I am not theirs in as much as they are really not mine at all. In the end, all my worldly life and its efforts to gain all external is in vain. In the end I and they are bound to be separated for ever. This is the most sorrowful state of things and earlier I realise it the better. Ultimately whatever sins I committed to have these externals as mine, my soul alone will have to bear the fruits of these sinful actions. None will come to share this painful result. No ignorance is greater than believing things as mine which are not really mine. With this ignorance, I became the enemy of my