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Is bodily feeling an obstacle to spiritual progress? The bodily

feeling doesn't seem to leave us anyway. Kindly tell us what we

should do about it?

 

I have never told you to neglect your body. Always remember that the

body is an instrument. A temple may be very beautiful, clean and

highly attractive. However, you will not be satisfied by merely

looking at it from outside, unless you go in and see the idol

installed at the sanctum sanctorum. It is the idol or Mulavirat that

makes you feel happy and ecstatic, doesn't it? Similarly, your body

is the moving temple of God. You should never neglect it. Your

desires will not make your body polluted. The only thing is that the

desires need to be good and never bad.

 

We have on one side, arisadvarga six foes, such as lust, anger,

greed, attachment, avarice, and hatred, which ruin man. But you can

channelise them in the right direction. For example, take anger,

krodha. Anger does you no good at any time. But if you are angry with

your bad behaviour, wicked thoughts and evil tendencies, you will

improve yourself. So, don't be angry with anyone, be angry with your

own anger. Then, consider kama, desire. If you are after limitless

desires, you will be leading a discontented life. On the other hand,

if you desire God, desire to serve him, the very desire, kama,

becomes sublime.

 

Therefore, so long as one is selfish, self-centered, sensual and

worldly, the body definitely is an obstacle to spiritual progress.

But if you take it as an instrument for the realisation of the

divinity within yourself then definitely it is not an obstacle.

Hiranyakasipu, Hiranyaksha, Ravana, Kumbhakarna, Sisupala,

Jarasandha, Dantavaktra, etc., ruined themselves because of their bad

thoughts, wicked actions, cruel and harmful nature. In fact, the body

is the gift of God for man to realise and experience Him.