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Heard, Gerald - Pain, Sex and Time - The body is nothing but a material expression of craving and fear
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Pain Sex and Time – Gerald Heard
The Vedantists say that when a man knows who he really is, he ceases to need any longer a body. For that reason Ramakrishnan would not tell his great disciple, Vivekananda, who he, Vivekananda actually was.
Full psychical release may so draw all the energies into one advanced focus that the psycho-physical combination may break, the body be dissolved or (perhaps a juster simile) radiated away.
The purpose of evolution may be achieved.
Here it is worth-while quoting the opinion of one of the world's subtlest psychologists, the great Hindu thinker, Sankara. According to him the very fact of incarnation and embodiment is a symptom that craving and fear still remain, for the body is nothing but a material expression of such states of mind.
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought”.