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MANAV DHARMA / 93 indulgence. But let us think whether to consider this body as fine and beautiful is correct/right ? No, there is no real beauty in this body or any part of it. Firstly consider those causes which are helpful in the formation of this body, they are so ugly that even to recall the names will not be preferred by wise people. Body is formed with the combination of ova (ToT) and semen of a woman and man respectively and it is not considered proper to touch it, then what to talk of seeing it? The body is formed with bones, flesh and blood and imagine which of these are beautiful ? None, is the reply. All kinds of various foodstuffs of the world are eaten by this body and then all turn up in a filth/dirty product. Nose, mouth and anus are the main doors of the body through which the filths of the body and urine and stool come out of the body. Sometimes the body or any part of it is so much filled with dirty smell that no one likes to sit near that body. Inspite of all dirty parts and places of the body, if an ignorant man considers it a beauty and finé object, then that will be taken as his sheer foolishness but when a Vrati Sharawaka, whose delusion has come to an end in the company of ascetics and right scriptures, he deeply concentrates on this issue that inner pleasure is a merit of the soul and it has no relation with the worldly objects Just like a dog, who goes on sucking a piece of bone thinks that he is enjoying the flesh but actually speaking he is enjoying his own blood; similarly the lay man of the world, while indulging in sexual pleasures and in pleasures of five senses, think this pleasure as the greatest happiness, which is false, but actually speaking the lay man is wasting the values of human life and the man is so much infatuated in these physical pleasures that the aim of life is absolutely forgotten by him. But when his mental attention is diverted towards the realisation of self, all these worldly pleasures appear to him as useless, unfruitful and without any spiritiual importance.
Due to these reasons, for a Vrati Shrawaka the most important obstacles in his self-realisation and self contemplation are the worldly attachments, worldly problems and the problem of leading a married life, which has given birth to so many blood-relations like son, grand son and daughter's sons and daughters and other nearest relatives; and due to the maintenance of these relations, he has to acquire and collect worldly possessions. So, during the period of meditation on these vast worldly possessions and relations he decides even to cut off the relations with his own wife by renouncing her and with her renouncement he discards his mental attachment with other women in relation, in their loving stories and in the interesting talks about their parts of the body. Not only this, but he even starts hesitating the use of scents, decoration of bodily appearance in various ways.
