When you look at the body, you see that the body was founded by something outside of itself: one cell from the father, one cell from the mother. And whatever the body feeds on — food, water, air, sunlight — all of that comes from outside the body. You, who are conscious, have hardly anything in common with the body. Also, the wise man says, “The body is not mine,” because he doesn't control the body. The body will die one day whether one wants it or not.
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नाहं देहो न मे देहो बोधोऽहमिति निश्चयी।
कैवल्यमिव संप्राप्तो न स्मरत्यकृतं कृतम्॥ ११.६ ॥
nāhaṁ deho na me deho bodho'hamiti niścayī
kaivalyamiva saṁprāpto na smaratyakṛtaṁ kṛtaṁ
Neither I am this body, nor this body is mine. I am pure knowledge. One who knows it with definiteness gets liberated in this life. He neither remembers (acts done in) past nor (worries of) future.
