THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

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