“I am not this Body.” Easy to say…

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The body is a machine, like a motor car is a machine. I am within this body

as the driver is within the motor car.

 

Now the motor car has many needs. It needs gas, it needs oil, it needs to

have it's tires pumped up and so on. But if one forgets the driver in the

car and simply concentrates on the machine and the needs of the machine the

driver will not be satisfied.

 

He will be sitting in the car starving. Because the food of the driver is

different from the food of the car. You can not feed the driver gas. His

food is different.

 

So we are the driver of this body. This body has so many needs, but these

bodily needs are different from our needs, we are the driver of the body,

the soul within the body, " the ghost in the machine… "

 

So our idea is to satisfy the bodily needs only as much as necessary to

maintain the body in a healthy condition and spend the rest of our time and

energy in spiritual activities which help us to reawaken our original

spiritual consciousness, these are our real needs, the needs of the soul.

 

It is not that we do not eat, or sleep, or have sex or defend, but these

things are done in a regulated way to maintain the body in a healthy

condition. But as the motor car is simply a vehicle which is meant to

transport the driver to his destination, we see this material body as a

vehicle which can be used to transport the driver–the soul–to his ultimate

destination: back home, back to Godhead.

 

If we spend all our time trying to satisfy the senses of our body we will

waste all our time and energy in this way and become completely distracted

from the real purpose of life which is to get out of this material world and

get back home to the spiritual world where we will get an eternally youthful

spiritual body full of knowledge and full of pleasure… Then we will really

be happy…

 

Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!

Om namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya

Prasanth Jalasutram