Bhavana Bodh

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

Page 38

BHAVANA BODH
31
We again remember the above possessions of king Bharat with a view to impress upon all readers that by right discrimination, he realised the nature of basic difference between the soul and body with all its external accompaniments and knowing it well he immediately left worldly life as a serpent leaves its outer skin and proved the falsity of the sense of mineness which binds all this worldly life. We can see stability of great renunciation, the sense of minelessness and the development of infinite power of the self in this lite of great yogeswar Bharat.
Out of one hundred sons of Bharat's father, ninetynine sons were already practising self-realisation ; this hundredth son Bharat sought the same self-realisation. Bharat's father also saught the same self-realisation as Bharat and it is said that whoever kings followed on Bharat's throne, realised the same self-realisation in the same Adarsh Bhuvan. The whole band of spiritually realised souls help us to enter the real sense of oneness by a full realisation of basic fundamental difference of nature between the soul and the entire externals. All praise and salutations to these great souls including Bharat.
(Shardulvikridit) Dekhi Angali Aap Ek Adavi, Vairagya Vege Gaya, Chhandi Raj Samajane Bharatji Kaivalyagyani Thaya; Chawthu Chitra Pavitra Eja Charite, Pamyu Anhi Purnata, Gyaninan Mana Tena Ranjan Karo, Vairagya Bhave Yatha.
Special Meaning :- Looking his one finger lonely, without the ring that fell out of it, one who entered the life of utter nonattachment, one who left off his royal paraphernalia and achieved perfect self-realisation; by depicting the life of such a great king Bharat this fourth print has come to an end here. Let us all please the enlightened souis by such correct description of the spirit of utter non-attachemnt which is the core of ascetic life.
Thus the example of Lord Bharat and the lesson to be learnt from it, comes to an end in the fourth print of the first presentation of this book BHAVANA BODH.