The mystery of Body

The biggest mystery of the universe is the body. Even though religion and metaphysics speak only about other mysteries of God and the Soul and treat body with slight, the body has it’s share of fascination.
They say the identification of mind with body, which is called body consciousness is ignorance. The body is only a vehicle which the soul uses for working out it’s karma. When death comes the body only dies and the soul may taken on another body, just as a snake sheds it’s skin.
But to think of it, what a vehicle it is! Ferraris and Porches are chicken feed compared to it. No wonder, the human psyche is so much attached to it. It is born small with all the potentials of a fully grown man/woman. It has complex systems and energy feeds. The processing of food, water and air is done in the most intelligent manner.

The body has it’s demands, no doubt. We work, earn and feed it. We give sex to it. We clothe it, transport it and nurse it when it is ill, though it cures itself. We need it in perfect shape in order to carryout other functions.

Body comes in different shapes and colors. The color of the skin, the eyes, the hair and different shapes of short, tall, thin, fat etc. But the inner organs are uniform for all. You don’t boast of three ears or two tongues! Everyone eats through the front and excretes through the rear, though the shape of the rear is a matter of pride for some species!

It houses the senses and the brain for processing all the inputs coming in through them. We think and act on the basis of these inputs. Every cell of the body develops intelligence and is capable of performing independently.

It grows old, often due to misuse than anything else. But even when it is looked after well, we don’t know whether we are looking after it well enough, but it does grow old.

When it dies it dies once for all. Nothing is recoverable. For the soul they say another body may be waiting but for the body there is no another soul. It is burnt or buried but it never returns.

The biggest mystery is the death because we don’t know when it arrives. The body is totally out of our control as far as death is concerned. Disease is only an excuse but the end is certain and uncertain at the same. We know it is going to die one day but we don’t know when. Diet, exercise and medical intervention only help to an extent. There are hundreds of mysteries inside the body and we don’t know which mystery is going to claim our life when.

Our hopes are our next life, God, heaven and after life. But this life in this body is finished once for all in death.
This is the tragedy of life.

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