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English Translation
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147. What a wonderful thing is the body of man? In appearance, it looks very beautiful, but if its skin be taken off, it will look very loathsome; fire reduces it to ashes at once.
148. Washing the body, applying oil and cosmetics, etc., to it, and nourishing it with relishable food, -all these are useless; just as it is sinful to help a man of evil motive.
149. As a vessel of filth, with holes in it, always passes filth through those holes, so does the body ever pass filth and urine through its holes,-how should such a body be loved?
150. Karmas, being enemies of Jiva (soul), have collected the material of pain and sin and impurity and made a body for
it.
151. O wise soul! Be ashamed of loving such a loathsome body; why dost thou take delight in it; give up its attachment and perform Dharma to purify thy self.
152. Renounce the attachment of thy body; it is not good; thy Jnana-maee Atman is Bhinna (distinct) from this body; seek for that very Atman in thy self. • 153. Saints knowing the body to be the cause of pain, give up its attachment. How can the wise love that which does not conduce to Param-Sukha (bliss of Moksha).
154. O soul! Be contented in the Ati-Indriya Sukha (happiness independent of senses produced by Atmic Svabhava (pure nature of soul) without the help of any foreign element. Happiness produced by foreign elements or by other than self, does not extinguish desire.
155. Self is Jnana Svabhava (knowledge or consciousness by nature); its Svabhava (real nature) is none other than this. Having known it, O Yogin! do not entertain Raga (love, desire or attachment) for anything else.
156. One whose mind does not wander among Vishaya Kashaya (sensual pleasures, passions and desires), sees through the eyes of Samyaktva (right belief), his Shuddha Atman (the true, or pure self) directly.
