ĀTMĀNUŚĀSANA – PRECEPT ON THE SOUL by Ācārya GUṆABHADRA (ca. 818–900 A.D.) [203]
Gātha 202
O soul! You are by nature, pure, all-knowing, and without colour and taste, etc.; you have been greatly polluted by the body. It is right; which pure object that comes in contact with this corporeal, always dirty, and inanimate body, does not get polluted? Fie on such body.
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
Ācārya Pūjyapāda’s Iṣṭopadeśa:
Knowing that on contact with the body even pure objects are rendered impure, and that the body is home to many afflictions and woes, to provide it with objects of pleasure makes no sense.
Cf. ‘Saṁvara [part 4024]’ gātha 18 https://www.facebook.com/groups/692614454130155/permalink/3359070377484536.