Drushtant Kathao

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

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Ashuchi Bhavana-Chakravarti Sanatkumar
Fifth Picture
ASHUCHI BHAVANA
(Contemplation of Impurity) Khan Mutra Ne Malani Roga Jaranu Nivasanu Dham;
Kaya Evi Ganine, Mana Tyajine Kar Sarthak Aam. Special Meaning - Conscious soul ! Consider this living body as a mine of refuge and urine, as an abode of disease and old age and so leave aside the false sense of pride for such a body, make it successful by realising the self as Sanat Kumar did.
The life story of Bhagawan Sanat Kumar will be commenced here to explain and establish the soul saving aspiration that body is impure and the soul is only pure.
SANATKUMAR CHAKRAVARTI Example :- Like the great King Bharat whose royal grandeur and acquisitions were described in the life of Bharat, King Sanat Kumar, sovereign ruler had all those wealth and fame with him. His bodily beauty and form were matchless. Once in a religious assembly, Gods in heaven praised the beauty of the body of Sanat Kumar. Some two deities could not agree to this praise and so to verify the appropriateness of this praise, they went as Brahmins to the interior of the palatial residence of King Sanat Kumar. At that time his body was anointed with fragrant ointments and he wore a short dhoti and he was sitting for a good bath. The two Brahmins saw his smiling and enticing face, golden coloured skin of his body and lustre similar to that of the moon and they were very much pleased and they nodded their heads in agreement of the praise of beauty and form of Sanat Kumar. Seeing this, Sanat Kumar asked them to tell him the reason of their nodding; to which the two deities replied, "We were much desirous of observing your beautiful form of body and golden skin colour. Wherever we went we heard the praises of your bodily beauty and colour. Today we saw them and we are quite satisfied that the praise was quite correct and so we were pleased and we nodded our heads to show the correctness of the praises of your bodily form and beauty which we heard wherever we went. Really your form and beauty go beyond all praises about them; they are far more than expressed by the people in their praises." Sanat Kumar being highly influenced by the praise of his beauty and form expressed in pride that though they had seen his beauty and form at that time was good but they 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 presently while he was preparing only for a good bath; he added that they would be really surprised and wonderstruck if they see his bodily beauty and lustre in the assembly which would be worth admiring in fact. To this, the deities said, "Well then we will surely come to your royal assembly and see you as you have asked 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 statuswise 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
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