THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...
THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...
THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...
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too though it may seem to be pleasures on account of the illusion of Maya. It is nothing but the hell<br />
in itself. If one tries to know how this body is formed one would definitely know that it is the<br />
dirtiest process of all. Right from the formation of the ovum and the sperm through their passage<br />
and union, formation of the zygote in the womb its development into the fetus and then the process<br />
of labor is most cumbersome to say the least. Throughout this process the body and mind of the<br />
mother is severely affected and many a times takes her life away. It is for this reason that the Hindu<br />
religion considers the period of menstruation though physiological, as a period which is unholy to<br />
make the common man understand what he refuses to by any other explanation. It is misconstrued<br />
that the religion calls a physiological thing as unholy but if one looks at it from this angle of<br />
making the common man understand the miseries of the female life through a symbolic gesture<br />
then one marvels at the kindness and the empathy which is shown by the Vedas and other religious<br />
epics. It is needless to say that the product of this unholy process has to be and indeed is full of<br />
unimaginable dirt. The body is like a manhole on the drainage lines. If one opens the manhole he<br />
would immediately shut it for obvious reasons, in the same vein if one tries to look inside the body<br />
from the point of view of pleasures and treasures hidden inside one gets the rudest shock of his life<br />
when he can’t stand the stench of the dirt and waste inside.<br />
One can clean a dirty place to make it habitable but no matter how<br />
many times you wash the body it remains the same dirty one. If one looks at the body objectively it<br />
consists of the skeleton, muscles, fat, vessels, nerves, blood (the major part of which circulates as<br />
impure one) and various organs and viscera. Looking at them collectively or separately I can’t see<br />
anyone who would love any of these parts from an aesthetic point of view. In addition to all this (as<br />
if this is not enough!) innumerable diseases make it still worse. Human body is a store house for<br />
dirt of the dirtiest kind.<br />
Let us consider the various organs of the human body. The intestines<br />
contain the dirty matter to be thrown out of the body and also various kinds of parasites and other<br />
microorganisms, which do not change, whatever you eat. Of all the organs the head is considered to<br />
be the best and the most important. Think about it. Through the nose one discharges the foul<br />
smelling secretions, through the eyes in the morning come out solidified secretions which prevent<br />
even a proper view of anything, in the morning the oral cavity emanates a horrible smell. Such is<br />
our head and we praise it by various adjectives. Does anyone like the fecal matter or the vomitus?<br />
Yet it doesn’t deter us from our liking for the head and the face. It does seem strange but is<br />
nevertheless true. Your kidneys throw out the unwanted salts as urine, no matter what you drink it<br />
is going to be converted into urine. Except the mentally perverted no one likes these things but<br />
without them life is impossible. If you decide that you won’t defecate, urinate or vomit out the<br />
unwanted thing you won’t live for more than just a few days. These are bare facts about the human<br />
body and to say that we love it so much! This is what it is in the healthy state, what it is in a<br />
diseased one is for anyone to imagine!<br />
The human being has to suffer indescribably for having come to stay<br />
in this jail of the body and the sufferings start right from conception. In the womb as a fetus all the<br />
nine openings of the human body remain functionless. It is surrounded by all the contents of the<br />
intestines and the kidneys. Nobody knows what the feelings of the fetus (which is the most helpless<br />
thing on this earth) are. Every moment it must be an unbearable one for it. Every moment it must<br />
be praying the God, “Please relieve me of this horrendous agony. I will never try to be born again if<br />
you answer my prayer”. But all this is to no avail. Now comes the time of birth. Many of the times<br />
the labor is obstructed because of this reason or that. In such circumstances the fetus has to be<br />
pulled out of the womb or the mother has to be operated upon. In both the cases there is tremendous