ĀTMĀNUŚĀSANA – PRECEPT ON THE SOUL by Ācārya GUṆABHADRA (ca. 818–900 A.D.) [60]
Gātha 58
O living being! In this world, characterized by births and deaths, you are identified by the body that you adopt, meaning thereby that you are always subservient to the body that you adopt, one after the other. Under the dark spell of sinful karmas, you experience misery at all times. Your occupation is bondage of karmas, like the knowledge-obscuring (jñānāvaraṇīya), every instant and of your own accord; your only rest is when you go to sleep; you are always afraid of death but, surely, it is inevitable. The wonder is that you still get engrossed in this appalling world.
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