Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 13
Similarly, when a body suffers from fever, he thinks that he suffers from fever. If the self, suffered once, it would continue suffering. It means that the self, neither suffers loss nor suffers, from fever.[1]
A man (spirit), wants to be emancipated from pleasure and pain, because he assumed his identity with Matter, otherwise he himself being a portion of the Lord, always remains the same, without undergoing any modifications, in the form of pleasure and pain etc. It means, that in this identification of the self, with the body, the self has a desire for emancipation, while the body, has desire for worldly enjoyments. So at last, the sentient self, is emancipated, rather than the inert body.
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References
- ↑ If a man realizes that he is the self, why should he suffer from the fever or desire or craving?