Bhavana Sataka

Author(s): A S Gopani, Dharmshila Mahasati, Girishkumar P Shah Pandit
Publisher: Labhubhai P Mehta

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(३) संसार-भावना
(शिखरिणीवृत्तम् ) अहो संसारेऽस्मिन् विरतिरहितो जीवनिवहश्चिरं सेहे दुःखं बहुषिधमसौ जन्ममरणः । परावर्तानन्त्यं प्रतिगगनदेशं विहितवाँस्तथाप्यन्तं नाप्नोद्भवजलनिधेः कर्मवशतः ॥१८॥
Meaning :- Oh! in this world, the people, without desisting from sinful activities, tolerate ceaselessly the miseries of birth, old age, and death from a long time past. Still they have not been able to cross the worldly ocean and come to the bank of it, though they changed the Pudgalas of the body for times without number by undergoing birth and death infinite times even in one Pradesa out of the innumerable Pradesas of which this world is constituted. (18)
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