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I am the Soul have been able to achieve, rising above the pleasures and pains is alas, not in me. You are neither affected by the pleasure of a woman's company nor by the pain of your burning hand. You have truly attained the state beyond this physical existence, despite your being tied down to this worldly life and the entailing responsibilities":
The disenchantment with the natural reactionary course of the body while residing in it, is experiencing the state beyond the physical existence, is the videha dasha. Who does not have a body? Only the siddha. Rest of us all have a body to reside in. The attachment towards the body leads to the passions for the senses. When the enchantment with the body is withdrawn the passions will not last, they will be eliminated on their own. No special effort is called for.
Here King Janaka was such a dispassionate person. He became the ideal for the Brahman. The Brahman in search of the ultimate truth, aboandoned all his treatises then and there and promised not to enter into any debates or aguments thenceforth, nor to demean anybnody. Thus he left feeling much lighter having freed himself from the clutches of his own vanity.
Dear Brothers! The reason why I narrated this story of King Janaka was to emphasise on the point that it is not necessary to be a mendicant or a saint alone to be able to invoke the disenchantment within. People leading a material life, even while attending to all their duties as householders can very well experience this disenchantment if they lead a discerning life. One who is aware of the futility of the inanimate things, one who has well understood that the inanimate cannot offer any pleasure, becomes capable of attaining this realisation of the soul.
There may be anything that you feel is very dear to you, that it offers you pleasure; it is in fact not so. Let's suppose you relish a gulabjamoon very much. You may say, “Just let me have
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