Siddharth Gautam on infactuation with the body.

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Thakur whispered these lines to his deciples often... very often...

 

Buddh on the ignorance and futility of attraction to the human body.

He is instructing a maiden called Prakriti who was infatuated by

Anand.

 

The Buddh:

 

You consider Anand's body to be beautiful. But, if his skin is

bruised, he bleeds. If it is not treated, it gets swollen. It begins

to ache. Pus will ooze out. If we were to strip off the skin of any

individual, no one would even want to look at that person. If what

is inside the body is turned outside, one would have to take a

cudgel to prevent the dogs and crows from attacking.

 

This body is made up of bones, skin, veins, flesh, blood, spittle,

excrement, etc. When you consider its nature it is repulsive. It is

as impermanent as froth and bubble, as temporary as a flash of

lightning, as illusory as magic, or as a figure seen in a dream.

The body is ephemeral, uncertain, false. It is like a vessel full of

waste-matter. If a person was to forgo meals for one day, if one

were not to bathe for one day, if one were not to brush one's teeth

for one day, one would tend to find one's own self repulsive.

All forms of repulsive things ooze out of the body. The body is a

repository of diseases, of sorrows, of fears, of disasters. One's

own bodily waste is repulsive to one's own self. This body has

millions of minute pores. Waste matter oozes out of this body like

fat from a grease-pot. It is the dwelling place of millions of

worms. It is a place where weeping, mourning and lamentation take

shelter.

 

Once the life-breath leaves this body, people are frightened even to

touch it. In a couple of days it becomes a putrid dead body with

waste matter oozing out of it. There is only very little difference

between the love of one dead body and the love of another dead body.

Love springs entirely because of craving. Where there is no craving,

there is no affection. Where there is affection, there is sorrow

too. From the day you started loving Anand until now, you

experienced sorrow, weeping, lamentation, agony, sleeplessness,

starving, exhaustion, emaciation and fatigue. None of this is

happiness. You must consider now, with your wisdom, whether Anand's

body is an entity that should be loved.