Drushtant Kathao

Author(s): Shrimad Rajchandra, Dinubhai M Patel
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram

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Bhavnabodh - Ekatva Bhavana
successfully, who was an ascetic par excellence, who was possessed of a very high intellectual and spiritual insight, who was very highly famed, who was
free from all worldly knots and who was well versed in best scriptural knowledge, delivered to Shrenik, the King of Magadh Desh emanating from his own suffering and experience is really helpful to one to have the feeling of being an orphan in worldly life and so it helps one to sustain and cherish this soul saving aspiration - Asharan Bhavana -feeling that except true religion there is no other saviour from human miseries. Ordinarily speaking many a people in their worldly life are seen suffering miseries as much or more than what Anathi Muni experienced. You think of such miseries and cast aside your state of orphanhood and understand the real protector and the best philosophy preached and practised by Vardhaman Mahavir and adopt a fitting life of a non-attached spiritualised soul. In the end, that only will save you from all miseries and lead you to self realization. Just as the great Anathi Muni was an orphan while in his worldly life, every living being without the adoption of true enlightenment and right religious discipline is always an orphan. Hence every effort should be made towards being possessed of a protector or saviour and therein lies a living being's true good.
Thus the description of the great knotless or pure ascetic Anathi Muni given for strengthening the "Asharan Bhavana" the soul saving contemplation comes to an end
in the second picture of the first presentation of this book "Bhavana Bodh."
Third Picture EKATVA BHAVANA (Contemplation of Singleness)
(Upajati poetic form) "Sharir Man Vyadhi Pratkyaksha Thaya
Te Koi Anye Lai Na Shakaya; E Bhogave Eka Sva Atma Pote, Ekatva Ethi Naya Sugna Gote."
Special Meaning : Whatever pains and troubles are actually experienced in one's body when overpowered by diseases, cannot be taken away by any of affectionates, friends, family members, wife or sons. All these diseases are suffered by one's soul alone by itself, none can share them. Similarly the fruits of our actions sinful or saintly are also to be suffered by ourselves without any sharing by others. Our soul comes alone in this world and also departs from it alone. Proving this point, persons having right discrimination are always in a search of being and living alone.
CONVERSATION BETWEEN NAMI RAJ AND SHAKRENDRA Example : Given below is the conversation between Nami Rajarshi and Shakrendra - a deity in heaven who preaches non-attachment towards worldly life and proving the truth of the above teaching of Bhagawan Mahavir.
Nami Rajarshi was a philosopher King of Mithila city. Even though he did not suffer much from his family relations-wife, sons etc., he was never in delusion about the transitory nature of worldly belongings. He always knew that the soul is alone and rightly so. Shakrendra in the guise of a Brahmin arrives at the place where Nami Rajarshi is sitting in worldly retirement and