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Slokas 13 & 22
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| Even as the embodied self attains in this body childhood,
youth, and old age, so does it attain another body; the wise man does not
get deluded at this. Just as a person gives up worn out clothes and puts
on other new ones, even so does the embodied self give up decrepit bodies
and enter other new ones. |
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Jagat or cosmos is ever on the move.
It is never static. It is ever changing. Its replica in microcosm is man
who is also ever changing.
Man is of three bodies: the physical, the subtle and the
causal. Only the physical body is visible to the naked eye. Even with that
naked eye, we can see how the bodies of the people are ever changing. Just
as we do not take bath in the same waters of the Ganges, we do not have
the same bodies always. From birth till death, the human body passes through
various stages: childhood, boyhood, youth and old age. As the physical body
is always changing, the subtle body (mind) too is ever on the move. The
causal body leaves the physical and the subtle body (mind) after their death
and assumes another pair. It too is ever on the move from one body to the
other, at its death and the consequent birth. It is but a chain of birth,
death and rebirth. It is wisdom to know the Truth about the jagat and the
individual bodies at all levels and be a spectator to their ceaseless changes.
Blessed are they who remain unchanged and unperturbed looking at the changing
world and bodies. We look at the cinema screen which remains unchanged in
spite of the pairs of opposite scenes such as fire and flood, smile and
sobs, pains and pleasures and births and deaths. While travelling in a train,
we remain spectators to the objects we pass by. Similarly, the wise ones
remain serene and sober while their bodies undergo change persistently.
As the old clothes are dropped to wear the new ones, the old or worn out
bodies are dropped to assume the new ones.
Let us be wise witnessing the changes within and without.
Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the
service of others.-- Swami Vivekananda |
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