Body is a beautiful instrument

Body is a beautiful instrument- Anant Sri

Our body is a wonderful instrument. All our activities of life are through our body. But it is surprising that somehow this condemnation for the body has entered the society.

This condemnation for natural things in life is neither proper nor desirable and especially for something so important and so beautiful.

The people who condemn the body do not know the body. The body is a threat to those who are not friends with the body and as such these are the people who are either obsessed with the body or enter strong condemnation of the body. Both are results of fear. Fear because body does not speak the untruth, it always reveals the truth. You cannot hide anything; your body will give away your secret, your feelings, your thought, your anxiety, your pleasure, your pain and even your lust. So, people feel terrorized by it.

Then there are those who want to exploit people also condemn the body so that people remain ignorant and can be easily trapped for exploitation. People are even made to feel ashamed of natural body changes and functions. Women are the soft target for such exploitation, though men are also not spared.

However there have been women who showed deeper understanding and were called witches. The term, witches, was used for women in the same sense as mystics for men. But with time this term became derogatory for women. Such women were often mistreated and even killed in some societies.

The body is in constant communication with the world and if you can learn to be friendly and sensitive towards it, it can tell you about everything that is going around.

Our body is the coming together of पार्थिव and चेतना, material and consciousness. How do they meet is not known, it remains a mystery. This is what is known in spirituality as माया.

A body is formed by union of just two cells and all the information is coded in these two cells for the growth and functioning of the body. These two cells multiply to form a grownup body with the right organs and the right functions of all the organs and the entire body systems. Not only do these cells have information for the formation of the body system but they carry with them the information on the entire journey of the humanity, everything. Knowing your body in depth tantamount to knowing everything about yourself. And as all is interconnected, knowing one body in completeness, is knowing the journey of all humanity.

Our body is the most precious, the most beautiful and the most mysterious gift to us by nature. We should love it, have respect for it and try to familiarize ourselves with it and be friends with it and enjoy what wonders it unfolds before us.