In plain words
“Punarvittaṃ punarmitraṃ punarbhāryā punarmahiḥ, etatsarvaṃ punarlabhyaṃ naḥ śarīraṃ punaḥpunaḥ.”
Embodiments of Prema!
This Body Is the Gift of Grace God Has Given for the Practice of Dharma
If you lose wealth, you can earn wealth again by some device or other, or by some strength or other. If you lose a friend, then again, through some good feeling or through some good resolve, we can win many friends. If you lose your wife, you can marry a second time and gain a wife again. If you lose land, there is every chance of earning it back. But if we lose the body itself, it will not be ours again. So, “Śarīram ādyaṃ khalu dharma-sādhanam” means: this body is the gift of grace God has given for the practice of Dharma. We must make this sacred body sacred on the sacred path, through sacred deeds. Health is most necessary for the body. Health itself is a kind of foundation for human life. So if you lose health, you have to suffer many troubles. In human life there is no greater fortune than health. Where did this word health begin? It came from Anglo-Saxon. The basis of this word is another word, helath. Hilith means sacred, in one sense; health is joyful, in another. A sacred, pure humanness is what this helith means. The body does not mean only a head, or hands, or a nose, or an ear, or feet, taken singly. The body is all the limbs together.