- The fact is that pleasure and pain are the characteristics of embodiment, when one takes on a body, pleasure and pain come with it.
- When one takes on a body, pleasure and pain come with it. Srimanta was a great devotee. And the Divine Mother had great affection for his mother, Khullana. Yet Srimanta suffered so much. He was taken to the cremation ground to be cut into pieces!
- The body that is made of five elements is the gross body. The subtle body is the mind, the intellect, the ego, and the mind-stuff. That by which one enjoys the bliss of God and communion with Him is the causal body. It is called ‘Bhagavati tanu’ in the Tantra – the Divine Body. Last of all is the Great Cause (Mahakarana, the unconditioned turiya) which cannot be expressed in words.