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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM
“vriddha nari pathivratha”. This fellow has never been disciplined1 in his earlier life, now all of a sudden he wants to discipline the body in 65th year. How will he do that? It is something that we cannot understand and naturally it leads to such results as he deserves. I do not know what he gets by this Yoga. I have not attempted nor do I have an inclination for it. So this obsession with this body is what is making most of us confine ourselves to the level of the body, physical body.
There is almost a refusal to recognise that there are other bodies with us, and that we have got to be more alive to them than to this physical, which every animal is aware of. It knows how to protect itself, how to take its food, it knows how to bring out next generations, it knows everything about it. There is no necessity for any of us to teach all that. People who get stuck up to this body alone are afraid of what may be considered as a termination of this body, which is termed as death. People who do not have that fear namely those who think that they live even in other bodies that they have got, they are definitely people who are above this fear of death. The physical body seems to be only one thing that is obsessing all
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