Bhavana Bodh

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

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form at this time that is good but the deities would be more satisfied and pleased when they see him well dressed and decked with proper ornaments seated on the throne in the royal assembly as compared with what they saw of him now while he was preparing only for a good bath. You would be really surprised and wonderstruck if you see my bodily beauty and lustre in the assembly which are worth admiring in fact. To this, the deities said,' Well then we will surely come to your royal assembly and see you as you ask us to do so'. Saying this, the deities went away.
Then Sanat Kumar put on an excellent matching dress and wore very costly ornaments befitting his royal status and making his body more and more attractive and lustrous, came to the royal assembly and sat on his throne. He was surrounded by his able advisers, brave warriors, learned men and other members of the royal assembly, seated in their statusvise seats and Sanat Kumar was shining in his beauty by attendants spreading fragrance to please him and all were addressing praises to him. At that time the same two deities arrived in the same guise as Brahmins and they nodded their heads seeing Sanat Kumar, quite differently than what they did when they saw him while ready for good bath. Quite surprised at this queer nod, Sanat Kumar asked O Brahmins ! What is the reason for nodding in such a different way? The deities by their AVADHIGYAN (Special high knowledge) replied :- O king Sanat Kumar! There is a vast difference like that between sky and earth, between your beauty and lustre that we observed when you were about to take bath and that we see now when you are seated with all the pomp and glory on your throne in this royal assembly. Sanat Kumar asked for the clear meaning of their nodding. To which the deities replied as under :
O king of Kings! When we first saw you at the time of your getting ready for a good bath, your body was like nector, and when we see you now it is like poison. So when we saw you first, we nodded our heads in appreciation and when we saw you here, we nodded expressing sorrow at your poison like body. If you want to verify the truth of what we say, you can now spit in some place and soon a fly will sit on it and it will die. Accordingly Sanat Kumar examined and found that the statement of the deities was true. It was the mixing of his past lifes misdeeds or sins with his pride of