- 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.
- The body is indeed subject to happiness and sorrow. Sometimes God keeps one in happiness, at other times in misery.
- I am undergoing all this suffering because you people will weep otherwise. This mortal frame will go if you all say, ‘He is suffering so much; let his body go.’
- When one takes up a body, there is bound to be suffering. “I say time and again, ‘May I not have to return [to the mortal world]!’ This assuming of a human body is for the sake of the devotees.”
Quitting the Body
- If a man practices spiritual disciplines before quitting his body, if he casts off his body while calling upon the Lord, while practicing spiritual disciplines, sins can never touch him. The elephant’s nature is to smear itself again with dust after being bathed, but if the mahut pushes it inside its stable just after washing it, the elephant cannot soil itself.
- If one quits one’s body while calling upon the Lord, one is never touched by sins.