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I will get relief only when it can be discarded permanently." Using a psychograph, if we compare our mental state when we get a small boil and the mental state of the Acharya, the distinction between a dwarf -like and a giant-like mental state will become very clear.
What an exceptional and enlightened view-point ? To consider the body itself as a boil! Thereafter if there is a boil on the body or someone puts a cotton ball on it, how does it matter to the ascetic ? All the troubles are due to the main boil. So beautiful is this world of spirituality ! Someone considers this body to be a horn and someone considers the body to be a boil ! Eventually it is an unwanted burden attached to the soul.
If we can learn to view the body with any such search-light, it would be called the true realization of the body. What differentiates an enlightened soul and an ignorant soul ? Hands, legs, eyes and ears are same for both. The difference is due to their outlook. Both have a different way of evaluating objects. We give the highest importance to the body whereas the enlightened soul considers the body, as nothing more than a vehicle. We do not see anything in a disease other than pain, whereas an ascetic considers a disease as an opportunity to make spiritual gains.
Suppose that money due from a customer is not being paid despite our repeated reminders. Imagine that one amongst our creditors resolves to collect his over-dues from us, from our client. He manages to collect our dues from our customer, adjusts the money received against his dues from us and makes us pass necessary book entries. Here though we did not receive our dues from our customer, at least the reduction of our debt is in itself a consolation. During illness whatever pain
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