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Jamāli's parents again said :-“O son 1 Your body is endowed with excellent marks, lines, tokens (moles-black dots), and num. erous virtuous qualities It is united with excellent strength, valour, and strong character. It is highly auspicious, free from all diseased conditions-with the five senses well-nourished and not injured-and it is, for the present, in the bloom of commencing young age (youth). How will you observe the duties of ascetic life which are practised with difficulty. Because, a forest of lotus flowers cannot endure the crushing with the firm feet of big intoxicated elephants. Therefore, O son! abstain from taking difficult samyama dharma (ascetic life). Jamali said:-O mother ! This human body is full of numerous diseases and sorrows born with a mass of bones-pervaded with large and small arteries and veins-and of an easily perishable nature in a short time like a vessel of raw unripe clay. It is un-clean and filled with blood, flesh, fat, brain, semen, and other dirty substances. It is full of troubles of every kind, and it certainly deserves to be abandoned. The value of this worthless body is said to be due to the fact, that it is useful in rendering efficient service to persons endeavouring for Mokşa. ( Final Emancipation ). Besides, if this body is not decorated wish bathing, anointing and ornaments, it does not appear beautiful like a disc of the Moon during day-time."
On hearing this, Jamāli's mother again said :-O son ! It is extremely unworthy of you to abandon, before suitable time, your eight beloved wives, Priyadarśanā and others-who are born in noble royal families-who are clever in various arts and are handsome with lovely attractive bodies-who adorn their families like waves on seas adorning the banks of rivers-who have put on necklaces of pearls resembling rosaries of ascetics or who have put on necklaces of pearls while munis (ascetics) are muktâhara-parigraha (free from food and worldly concerns)-who sportively move about very gently like a row of elephants-who are slightly bent with the burden of their fat and heavy breasts - whose waists are capable of being grasped within one's fistwho behave agreeably to your mind-and who are extremely
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