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PRANAHUTI – ITS RELEVANCE IN SADHANA
why we had a joint family system to take care of others. Now that the joint family system has perished, the society is asked to take this responsibility which again is something asking for too much. That is why you find so many old people begging in the streets, where it is permitted. Where it is not permitted, you condemn them to some cell. What ever happens to them, at least they have freedom in our country, to walk on the road or do wherever they like. Other countries don’t even allow them to walk on the road. They have to sit in some place condemned and confined to a particular area. They are taken care of all sorts of things and are talked about only for the body. Our obsession is with the body. My point is, the body is the only sarira that we are able to think of. But that will never get the immortality.
In some cases, and most cases for that matter, human beings develop what we call as Ethereal body. This actually serves the needs of the physical, that is, it expresses our impulses, emotions, cravings etc. This is the body of emotions and feelings. In the case of animals they are condemned to urges and drives. When a particular impulse is there, it will definitely try to see that it is satiated otherwise it will not keep quiet.
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