ĀTMĀNUŚĀSANA – PRECEPT ON THE SOUL by Ācārya GUṆABHADRA (ca. 818–900 A.D.) [61]
Gātha 59
O imprudent being! Know that your body is like a prison-house built of bones acting as thick logs of wood, fastened by muscles and veins, covered up by skin, plastered with the mixture of blood and wet-flesh, guarded by the enemy in form of evil-karmas, and confined by the heavy shackles of age (āyuḥ). Do not have foolish fondness for this prison-house.
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