Bhavana Bodh

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

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BHAVANA BODH
present bodily form that made this whole body turn to poison, Observing this result of his body, a spirit of utter disgust at this bodily beauty and lustre developed in his mind and a strong feeling of non-attachment to his body and worldly life connected with it, grew strong. He realised that his worldly life was worthy of abandonment and similar impurity resides in the bodies of his wives and those of other relatives and friends. Therefore all pride about one's living body is no good; pride about it, is only infatuation and a life of delusion. So saying he left his worldly life of a sovereign ruler of six continents and started his journey for self-realisation. When he was moving as a saint, he caught leprosy, a deadly disease. To confirm his determination to work for self-realisation with a spirit of total non-attachment, one deity came to him in the guise of an expert physician and said to Sanat Kumar that your body is suffering from deadly disease and that he was an expert royal physician who would cure his deadly disease immediately if Sanat Kumar wanted it. To this the saintly Sanat Kumar replied as under :O you physician ! The disease in the form of bondages of a living being is deadlier than his deadly disease, if you are capable of curing me from bondage disease, please cure me off it and oblige. In case you are unable to cure me off my bondages, leave my deadly disease alone. To this the deity replied, 'I cannot cure you off your disease in the form of your bondage. Hearing this Sanatkumar, using his utmost spiritual acquisitions, took his spittle with his finger and applied it on his deadly disease and instantaneously his deadly disease got cured and his body regained its previous health. Seeing this miracle, the deity disclosed his real form and showering respectful praises, bowed to Sanat Kumar and returned to his place.
LESSON:- The body in which the deadly disease like leprosy grows, the body which is subject to instantaneous changes good and bad; in every cell of the body innumerable diseases reside and as the body has three and a half crores of cells, naturally it is the storehouse of incalculable diseases and this is clearly proved by discriminative insight and understanding. By more or less of food and other natural elements, these diseases appear in slight or acute form and it is composed of refuge, urine, filthy substances, bones, flesh, puss and marrow and the body looks