Accomplish Your Work with This Body Only

Accomplish Your Work with This Body Only is a discourse delivered by Shrii Shrii Anandamurti.

Synopsis

Shrii Shrii anandamurtiji began his discourse by quoting a verse from Bhagavad Giita—

Vásáḿsi jiirńani yathá viháya naváni grhńáti naro’paráńi;

Tathá shariiráni viháya jiirńányáni saḿyáti naváni dehii.

The meaning of this verse is—

When the clothes become old and tattered, they are replaced with newer ones. This is the law. Nobody wants to wear old, tattered, and dirty clothes. Similarly, when the body becomes old and worthless, it is changed for a newer one.

Anandamurtiji told that the human body grows old due to work and activity. One has to march every fraction of a second in one’s life. Marching ahead alone can establish one in dharma. Those who cannot move, cannot walk, are like corpses; their place is not in society, but in the cremation ground. They are pápiis (sinners), antisocial.

This movement is apparent in all three spheres of life— mental, physical and spiritual.

Publication

Sarkar delivered the lecture in June 1968 at Philippines.