Don’t Take Body Seriously || Acharya Prashant
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00:00The body is a conditioned machine. The body is like a programmed computer. It will do what it has to do.
00:06Pure spirituality lies in realizing that the body has its own ways, but you are not obliged to follow those ways.
00:16That you and the body can be at a distance. That the body will do what it wants to do.
00:21But you are under no compulsion to toe the body's line.
00:26I am the master. You are the equipment, the resource, the servant. You will do as I command.
00:33Must that not be the right relationship between consciousness and body?
00:37When that is the right relationship, then life is successful.
00:40When that is not the right relationship, then the body rules.
00:43The body is a very ancient animal. That's the reason the knowers have taught us not to identify with the body.
00:50So the spiritual person takes nothing seriously. Not her body, not her emotion, not her thought, not even her existence.