________________
KARAKAŅDACARIU
[ 9. 8. 8in the world of gods, lie, being inconsiderate, feels woeful iu his mind at the sight of others' prosperity. As the dancing girl assumos various forms, eveu so life takes various bodies. Whichever person studiously throws his sight 10 on the world, tell me, what he did not obtain in the world being himself the mine of all high-class gems.
5
9. There is no good helpmate of the soul, who could save it from falling into hell. Friends, relatives, sons and dear brothers, these render no help to the departing soul. One's mother and father Feep but do not go oven a foot-step with the soul. Wealth does not go out of the house even a stop; it alone experiences the fruit of piety and sin. The body falls in blazing fire; it alone mounts to the home of death. Where no happiness is found even for the twinkling of an eye there single-handed it suffers misery. Amongst sorpents, icbneumous, lions and dwellers of the forest, the soul alone is born helplessly. In the beautiful towns of the Surug' Khecards and Kinnaras it alone enjoys life as long as it lives. Whoever follows this view adorning his body with goodness, shines forth alone and free of the body, at the place of eternity which is the abode of happiness.
10
5
10. This is what the sage holding numerous virtues, declares. He declares it all alien to the soul. What is nourished with hundreds of drugs: even that body is separate from the soul. Eyes with beautiful pupils, large and pleasing, are no part of the soul. The tongue resembling che leaf of a tree, also stands apart from the soul. The richness of the body, touch, smell and ears, and the excellence of beauty, is all quite separate from the soul. The other qualities that are found in the body, all of them, go detached from the soul. The excessive fatness and fineness of the body are far removed from the soul. The four, anger and others, as well as virtue and vice, which are Karmic entities, are alion to the self Which ever person meditates in his mind upon this idea with firmnes, attains the highest status and becomes bright, absolved from body and excellent.
11. Tell me what quality shines forth in this body which has been given the ornament of impurity by vaturo ? The fickle eyes that become sportive, are defiled by lots of evils. Tell me what purity is there in the cavity of the nose whose excreta is visibly impure. How do people
– 172 –
10
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
www.umaragyanbhandar.com
