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disease will be diluted. Then union with worldly attachment becomes difficult and endurance becomes easy.
Look at the buffalo's body. Everything below the horn is useful. The horn sometimes gets entangled, sometimes gets trapped, it is heavy and can hurt someone as well. If someone hangs a floral garland on her horn, she remains unperturbed. The problem is only due to the weight of horn and not of the garland.
The great Jain Acharya Jagadguru Heersurishwarji Maharaj who gave sermons to Moghul Emperor Akbar and transformed him, once got a boil on his back. He suffered a lot of pain due to this boil. While performing his daily rituals also he used to get severe pain. Once after he had performed his daily ritual in the evening, one devotee came to tend to him. The Acharya, who was the head of a group of monks, refused his seva (selfless service), but still the devotee insisted and started massaging his back. He thought that acharya's back was paining him, so he would get him some relief. But in the process that boil perforated. He must have experienced unbearable pain. But the acharya after one accidental moan remained calm. The devotee was grief-stricken. "Gurudev ! You had such a big boil on your back. Why didn't you tell me?" The acharya gave a heart-wrenching reply: "why worry about a boil on a boil ?"
If the fan doesn't work, the mind feels suffocated and if the bed is not properly made, the mind is disgruntled. The devotee kept looking at the acharya, who had such a panaromic outlook of the body which he considered itself to be a boil, and quietly went away. He returned again next morning and inquired : "Gurudev ! now do you have some relief?". The acharya replied again: "I am more pained about the original boil i.e. the body.
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