Bhavana Bodh

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

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BHAVANA BODH
FIFTH PRINT ASHUCHI BHAVANA
(Giti Vrutta) KHAN MUTRA NE MALANI ROGA JARANU NIVASNU DHAM; KAYA EVI GANINE MANA TYAJINE KAR SARTHAK AAM.
Special Meaning:- 0 Consciousness ! Consider this living body as a mine of refuge and urine, as an abode of disease and oldage and so leave aside any sense of pride for such a body, make it successful by realising the self as Sanat Kumar did.
We now begin the life story of Bhagawan Sanat Kumar to show the standard of the soul - saving aspiration that body is impure and the soul is only pure.
Example :- Like the great king Bharat whose acquisitions were described in the life of Bharat, king Sanat Kumar, sovereign ruler had all wealth and fame with him. His bodily beauty and form
ere incomparably appreciable. Once in a religious assembly. Gods in heaven praised the beauty of the body of Sanat Kumar. Some two deities could not agree to this praise and so to verify the appropriateness of this praise, they went as Brahmins to the inner palacial residence of king Sanat Kumar where his body was anointed with fragrant ointments and he wore a short dhoti and he was sitting for a good bath. The two Brahmins saw his smiling and enticing face, his golden coloured bodily skin and his lustre like that of the moon and they were very much pleased and they nodded their heads in agreement of the praise of beauty and form of Sanat Kumar. Seeing this, Sanat Kumar asked them to tell him the reason of their nodding; to which they, the two deities replied - We were much desirous of observing your bodily beautiful form and golden skin colour. Wherever we went, your bodily beauty and colour were praised very much. Today we saw them and we are quite satisfied that their praise was quite correct and so we were pleased and we nodded our heads to show the correctness of the praises of your bodily form and beauty, we heard wherever we went. Really your form and beauty go beyond all praises about them; they are far more than expressed by the people in their praises. Sanat Kumar being highly influeneced by the praise of his beauty and form expresed in pride that though they have seen my beauty and