History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c46.34
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c46.34
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(20) In order to generate the feeling of vairāgya (desirelessness) and to curb his senses he should make his mind dwell upon the body as liable to disease and old age and as packed full of impurities; and should revolve in his mind the transitory nature of all mundane things, the trouble one has to undergo in body and mind from conception to death, the incessant round of births and deaths (Manu VI. 76-77, Yāj. III. 63-64, Viṣṇu Dh. S. 96. 25-42).