Bhavana Bodh

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

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own self or soul and I made my soul the sufferer of all my evil deeds in lower births. This is really indiscrimination and delusion. I am regarded as one of the sixty three excellent personages and still! did not realise this simple truth that my soul alone is mine and nothing else. It is unwise to go on in this infatuation and life of ignorance. I now have no attachment and feelings of mineness to any of these sons, wives, royal prowess and conveyances.
This clear print of non-attachment was so firmly fixed in the mind of Bharat, the greatest of all kings, that the dark spell of his ignorance got dispelled and he achieved purest meditation. That very moment all the rest of his bondages were burnt and he was enlightened with perfect knowledge, great divine and shining even more than thousands of sun rays and at the same time he adopted ascetic life and he was endowed with saintly equipments by Shasan Devi and thenafter that great renouncer became free from all attachment, all knowing, all seeing and freed himself from all four states of soul after death, twenty four different births of soul after death and all sorts of internal, external and cosmic miseries. He recoiled himself from all instable worldly enjoyments, he shed off considerations of love and hate and he became the highest soul worthy of constant worship by all spiritual aspirants.
BHAVANABODH
Lesson - thus the greatest of all kings Bharat, who was the Lord of all six continents, like the God of all Gods, the enjoyer of unlimited wealth, the master of a very long life and posessor of many invaluable jewels, by raising in him this Anyatva Bhavana, the sense of soul's otherness from all that is called mine in worldly life, became pure non-attached soul, in that palace so called Adarash Bhuvan.
Really the life of King Bharat, worhty of meditation, gives clear picture of the misery and sorrow of the worldy life and subsequently shows high teachings and means of right knowledge. Say! What was wanting in his worldly life! Neither there was scarcity of beautiful young wives nor there was scarcity of royal prowess, neither there was scarcity of victorious achievements nor there was scarcity of family members, neither there was scarcity of beauty and lustre, nor there was scarcity of success and fame.