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Samadhitantram
When one meditates on the soul, unmindful of the trials and tribulations of life, the influx of karmas gets blocked and their shedding takes place.
यज्जीवस्योपकाराय तद्देहस्यापकारकम् । यद्देहस्योपकाराय तज्जीवस्यापकारकम् ॥
( १९ )
Actions that are intended for the enrichment of the soul discard the welfare of the body, and the actions intended for the welfare of the body undermine soul-enrichment.
Acarya Kundakunda's Aṭṭhapāhuḍa:
your enfad unui gà nà faurenfa 1 तम्हा जहाबलं जोई अप्पा दुक्खेहि भावए ॥
Knowledge attained in comfort is destroyed as distress supervenes. (To cultivate patient endurance of bodily pain and suffering -) The yogi should, therefore, observe austerities, including mortification of the body while meditating on the soul.
(६-६२)
Enrich the soul, not the body
The soul and the body are two distinct entities; the soul is a spiritual substance with consciousness as its primary attribute and the body is an inanimate object comprising physical matter. All our actions in the direction of enriching the soul would, as a corollary, undermine the well-being of the body. Fasting and meditation are helpful aids to purify the soul but ignore the immediate needs of the body. Renunciation and austerities help the soul by saving it from harmful desires but deprive the body of the objects of its guard and embellishment. An ascetic striving after emancipation endures,
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