Manava Dharma

Author(s): Bhurmal Shastri, Nihalchandra Jain
Publisher: Aacharya Gyansagar Vagartha Vimarsha Kendra

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38 / MANAV DHARMA been splashed on our clothes or on our body, then these dots are cleaned and washed with the help of water Secondly the pores of our body are washed and cleaned for sometime when we take a bath and a sense of Freshness and purity grows in our mind. This · freshness provides us with the energy to perform a particular task with determination and fixed mind for a limited period. This much is the only purpose of taking a bath - as is defined in Ayurveda. That is why the authorities of physical sciences have permitted to bath in any clean and pure water of a tank or river. But really speaking, the soul is not purified at all and the body. too, is purified only outwardly for a while. Use of sandal pastes and scent of flowers applied on the body, after bathing are seen contaminated after a while. Hence this will be totally erroneous to think that bathing purifies the soul but on the other hand it only cleans the body for a short while.
The second, on this series of thought, is setting up heaps of sand and stones. As we go to the cremation ground, on the third day of the death, to collect the ashes of the burnt dead body, and this is taken up as a part of religious act, but this is only a traditional custom. Let us deeply think over it as to what is the use of collecting up the ashes and what is the loss if not collected. This is nothing but merely imitating) copying the other people traditionally and to give it up has rather become more difficutt.
In this follow up of traditions, people have considered it a part of religion to fall down from precipice or a hill and to burn up in a fire. But again here arises a question.
Question :- why is it not taken as a religion when there is no feeling of attachment for body found in the persons of above two categories ?
Answer :- If the reply is yes then, to die by taking poison or chocking the throat with one's fingers, will also be taken as an act of religion. To waste the most valuable life of a human being like this is noting but a suicide (34154217) which is the greatest sin.
Infatuation is attachment to possessions and contrary to it is known as Non-Infatuation (FAHTET) After being bestowed with this valuable human life, we should do the act of serving others, helping the poor and sufferers and to tolerate with complete patience all the difficulties coming in the way of social service and social welfare, without wasting this valuable life criminally. Envy is an evil as we all know. We must not be envy of our own self, but we should love our own self and have the feelings of love for others. But ignorance or lack of power of understanding is so harmful that even the wrong