Sannyasa Dharma

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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SANNYASA DHARMA
with one's self arises through the body. The wife, the child, the friend, and all other worldly relations, thus, are proved to be foreign to one's own self. At the moment of death one leaves them all behind. When one's body even is not one's own--for if it were one's own it would not have to be parted from in death,what good is to be had out of regarding anyone else as one's own? Thus thinking, one soon comes to realise the distinction between the body and the soul, and thus becomes qualified for the higher spiritual experiences.
(6) Asuchi anupreksha.-The body is the root and source of impurity. It has its origin in a form of matter which is regarded as the most impure. The place of its formation is no less impure; it is surrounded by filth of all conceivable sorts in its mother's womb! Nor is its impurity removed or rendered removable on being born. Its growth, as an independent organism, is also due to the processes whereby the food that it takes is dissolved and decomposed in different ways. Within, everything is nauseating; bile, phlegm, marrow, fat, and everything else, that is manufactured and stored in the body, are all unsightly, all untouchable, all impure! Purification is out of the question in connection with such a repository of refuse. It cannot be washed clean even with soap. The body will even stink if the outer parchment be pulled off. It is constantly discharging mala (excreta) through its several openings. How, then, can anyone, with the least pretensions to wisdom, love such a body?
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