Page 725 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6

Every one knows that we all will have to give up this body one day, still we see many people remain devoted to it beyond due limits. There are people today, who think that this body is the most important thing that they have, they adore it, adorn it and flaunt it. Enormous money, time and energy are spent in making it the best (or enhance it more and more). Innumerable number of beauty and fitness shops are coming up not because all are needed but because people are getting more and more oriented towards the outer beauty and maintenance of this body forgetting the very purpose of this body- it is the vehicle of our true self. All care for their body becomes there objective. This feeling, that they have for their body serves as a bondage, if they feel it diseased they are all along with doctors. They get really disturbed and upset about the issue. They are all the time serving their own master, the body. They have no value for soul residing in the body. Owing to this pull they lose balance and soul is paid no or very little attention. This example is as ridiculous as someone who loves his house of brick & motor very much decorates and cleans it all the time but neglects the family/people living inside (love and care for them is missing). We do not have to neglect our body altogether, but give due attention as required for its proper functioning and maintenance. The balance is needed, but if attachment is present it surely pulls and makes us loose balance.
We can find umpteen number of such examples in our lives where we will see that when we attach our feelings to the object of our fancy or hatred the result is loss of balance. But as our feeling of viveka and vairagya develop we will be in a position to stay more balanced.
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