Book Title: Key to Happiness
Author(s): Jayesh Mohanlal Sheth
Publisher: Shailesh Punamchand Shah

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________________ having beginning and alone bearing the pains. No one is going to accompany me at the time of my death. So I should try as far as possible to remain in self (Soul). ANYATVA BHAAVNA (Discrimination of Soul and body/matter) Contemplate who am I? Meaning thereby meditate own self (Soul) as different from the body made of matter and the manifestations due to karmas (which are made of matter) and establish oneness with that pure self (Shuddhaatma) and experience that only which is called self-realization (Samyagdarshana). That should be the one and the only aim of this life. ASHUCHI BHAAVNA (Filthiness of body) The desire one has to show the beauty of own body and has attraction for the opposite sex body. But the moment one contemplates body without skin, one only gets flesh, blood, pus, bile, sheet, urine etc. in that body; they all are filthy and foetid. Contemplate this to renounce the attachment of your body and the attraction of the opposite sex. Do not get infatuated by it. AASRAVA BHAAVNA (Influx of karmas) Punya (shubha=auspicious) and paapa (ashubha=inauspicious) both are aashrava for me 48 KEY TO HAPPINESS

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