Three Defects of the Human Body
Sri Sathya Sai at Sai Kulwant Hall in Prasanthi Nilayam
The possession of this physical body is by the will of God. This body is
completely inert. One might wonder as to how the body continues to grow if it
is inert? The car has headlights, which function when there is power supply
from the batteries. The horn produces a sound only when power is supplied to
it. Thought the headlights and the horn, the nuts and bolts which constitute
the engine are also inert, yet they enable the engine to start. All this is
because of the power in the car. Inert objects perform their respective
functions owing to the power supplied to them. Similar is the situation with
this body. For all the organs to function there must be some current. That
current is the Atma. This inert body is able to function only because of the
Atma. There is a magnet and there are iron filings. The iron filings move in
the direction of the magnet. Iron filings are inert, yet they move. It is only
because of the magnet. In the same way the Divine Lord, who is dwelling inside
the body, performs all the tasks.
God is the basis of the universe. Whatever cosmetics or perfumes you may use,
you cannot change your basic colour, which is given by the Lord. This is the
truth. This physical body is given to you to perform different functions and
duties. You should never believe that this physical body is permanent and that
it never dies.
There are three defects with this body.
1. The first one is that it seeks ownership of things which are not its own.
2. Next, it treats people as its own, who in reality, don’t even belong to that
body.
3. And finally, the body considers untruth as truth. These are the three
defects of the body.
Man believes that he is the physical body. If you are really the physical body
then why should you say that it is ‘my’ body. When you say this is ‘my’ body,
it implies that you are behind the body. Then how can you say that you are the
body. The first defect is that you have already defined yourself as the
physical body. In this world we keep on telling that this is ‘my’ body, ‘my’
field, ‘my’ wealth, ‘my’ money, etc. How long will it be yours? We have
attachment to such transient things and we keep on claiming that they are ours.
Nothing is yours in this world. You are not the body. How can this body belong
to you? This is all illusion. You have possessiveness, which emerges from your
mind. These are all passing clouds which come and go. Does anyone, before
marriage, know who is the husband and who is the wife? So too, does anyone,
before birth, know who is the father and who is the son? It is only after the
birth that you say he is my son, and only after marriage you can say that she
is my wife. These relationships, established during the course of life, are
like passing clouds. There is no permanent relationship between these things at
all. You go on telling ‘these are my people, my people’. This is the physical
delusion of the body. When you came to this earth, you did not have a single
piece of cloth. Nothing is yours. We are facing all these problems today only
because we think that all these things belong to us. You belong to none of
them.
There is only one truth and that is that this body is not permanent. One person
gets married and when his wife comes she addresses him as ‘my dear husband’.
The daughter comes and addresses the same person as ‘my dear father’. His
mother comes and addresses him as ‘my dear son’. If his son-in-law comes he
addresses him as ‘my dear father-in-law’. All this relationships are related to
the same physical body. The same body is the son, father, brother, etc. The
fact is that there is only one truth and different people talk about it in
different ways.
Different types of relationships are established with this single body. I am
one, but I have multiplied myself in many forms. The unity in everything is
one. There exists, in reality, only one thing. That is the hero (God). Entire
world is a big zero. When you keep this zero next to one it becomes ten.
Another zero makes it hundred. Put one more zero it becomes thousand. How are
these zeros getting their value? It is because of the hero that is one. If you
remove this one then the value is only zero. Divinity, Divine power and God is
the only hero. The delusion of this body, mind and intellect is zero.
Source: The Human Body: A Temple of God, Discourse 10, My Dear Students -
Volume 4
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