Sambodhi 2000 Vol 23

Author(s): Jitendra B Shah, N M Kansara
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

Page 75

DR. SUNANDA Y. SHASTRI
SAMBODHI
objects are like the colours of rainbow. Therefore, one should not become attached to them. He says -
विद्युत्लक्ष्मी प्रभुतापतंग, आयुष्य ते तो जळना तरंग;
पुरंदरी चाप अनंगरंग, शुंराचीए त्या क्षणनो प्रसङ्ग। Same thought is repeated in the poem, mit taart that all apparent world is false. He says -
बनावी छे केवी सुघड पिचकारी सूचवती,
बधी जूठी माया, मनन कर एवं मनवती । When the falsity of body and the apparent world is understood, then one should go a step higher, i.e. one should cultivate अन्यत्वभावना or अनुप्रेक्षा = differentiating one's self from body, home, people etc. The Prasāmarati defines 3RICAHTAAT as -
अन्योऽहं स्वजनात् परिजनाच्च विभावाच्छरीरकाच्चेति। यस्य नियता मतिरियं न बाधते तं हि शोककलिः॥7
i.e. "One who constantly thinks that I am distinct from my relatives, servants, riches, and one's own body, is unaffected by Kali in the form of grief." Same thought is refelcted in the following small poem of one stanza composed in शार्दूलविक्रीडित -
ना मारां तन रूपकांतियुवती, ना पुत्र के भ्रात ना, ना मारां भृत स्नेहियो स्वजन के ना गोत्र के झात ना, ना मारां धन धाम यौवन धरा, ए मोह अज्ञात्व ना,
रे ! रे ! जीव विचार एमज सदा अन्यत्वदा भावना ॥ i.e. "This beautiful body is not mine, beautiful wife, son, brother, servants, clan, caste, wealth, home and youth, nothing is mine. Oh Jiva ! do cultivate the feeling of distinctness."
On more clear words he says that the soul is different than body -
छे देहादिथी भिन्न आत्मा रे, उपयोगी सदा अविनाश ॥'
To confirm this detachment he elaborates the faults of perishable body in another giti of two lines in very strong words, i.e.,