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The nature of mundane existence (the universe and the body may also be contemplated) in order to cultivate awe at the misery of worldly existence and detachment to worldly things. . .
. The universe is eternal without beginning and end; resembles the cane seat, the cymbal and the drum. In this universe the living beings have been roaming about enduring in womb after womb in the beginningless cycle of births, deaths through-out, infinity. There is nothing permanent here. Life is as uncertain as the bubbles that float on water. And riches which beget worldly happiness are evanescent like the clouds and lightning. By contemplating thus on the nature of worldly existence a wholesome awe for worldly existence is attained. The body too is transitory by nature full of suffering and pain, worthless and unclean.
By contemplating on the nature of the body the desire for sensual pleasures in removed and the attitude of nonattachment is cultivated, therefore the nature of tbe universe and the body must be .contemplated.
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बोधि-दुर्लभ-धर्मस्वास्यात-तत्त्वानुचितन मनुप्रेक्षाः ॥६-१३ ॥
Rettection in meditating on transitoriness, helplessness, transmigration, loneliness, distinctness, impurity (of body), influx, stoppage, dissociation, the universe, rarity of enlightenment and the truth iproclaimed by religion.
