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material things will fail to bring you joy.
We see here how to have'the inside touch. When you sit for meditation, concentrate on your energy. Feel each part of your body.“These are fingers, these are arms, this is my head, here the whole body is vibrant.” Because of "something," all these limbs are active. Go on concentrating and observing to see what this "something,” is. “My body touches, my tongue tastes, my nose smells, my eyes see, my ears hear, and my brain thinks.” Why is it that sometimes eyes are there but don't see, ears are there but don't hear, tongue is there but can't taste, skin is there but does not feel, and brain is there but can't think? With this inductive affirmative and deductive negative questioning, you will go inside and come to one conclusion. That is—that it is your soul that makes your body work, and because of it your senses sense, your limbs move, and you communicate. And when the soul leaves, the body starts to decay. Then the corpse becomes an object of fear. It is the same body which was loved, but when the soul has left, no one wants to be alone with it even for one night. It is now only a lifeless corpse and no one wants to have contact with a dead thing. Without the soul, we don't want the body.
We have been giving first preference to the body. Now when we see soul, we start giving first preference to soul. But we do not neglect body. The combination of soul and body makes life. A materialistic man gives first preference to the body and knows nothing of soul. A spiritual individual sees the spirit and uses body to support his spiritual growth. Then
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