Passage 17

In English

The or the physical body is only an or instrument. It is the spirit within which is the or the witness. cannot cease as long as attachment to the decaying body continues. Attachment to the body should be substituted by the realisation of the reality of the . The or the physical body composed of the five elements, namely, earth, fire, water, air and ether, and subject to disease, decay, and death, cannot cross the ocean of . That is why one must surrender himself at the Lotus Feet of God and realise that he is not the (the mortal body) but the (the divine inhabiting the ), not the (body) but the (the divine residing in the ).