Bhavana Sataka

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

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जन्योऽस्ति नो न जनकोऽस्ति भवान्कदाचित् सच्चित्सुखात्मकतया त्वमसि प्रसिद्धः । रागाद्यने कमललब्धशरीर सङ्गी, जातो मृतोऽयमिति च व्यपदेशमेसि ॥ ३९ ॥
Meaning:- Oh! Soul! you are not born of any thing, nor do you give birth to any thing. You have neither origination nor destruction. You are famous everywhere as an entity constituted of Sat, Cit, and Ananda. Then how is that general practice which is current in our daily intercourse is only to be interpreted in the sense that the association and the attachment which the Soul has formed with the body, in which it is cast due to the Karmas which sprout from out of the seeds in the form of attachment and hatred, are responsible for the above-mentioned general practice. Those various transformatinos brought about by the Karmic molecules belong as a matter of fact to the body but they are erroneously associated with the Soul on account of the conjuction of the body with the Soul-on account of the wrong indentification of the Soul with the body. The Soul and the body are, really speaking, two separate entities and that is the main point to be always and constantly borne in mind here. (39)
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