One little point
needs to be stressed here. The body is like a mansion. No matter how wonderful
a mansion may be, even if it be made of marble and set with jewels, no one will
be able to live in that mansion unless it has a kitchen and a bathroom and a
toilet. Because, whatever man takes in, part of its goes to form his mind, part
of it goes to form his body, and the remaining waste has to be eliminated. And
waste is always foul-smelling. The impurities of the body are always
foul-smelling. In the outer mansion they have to have a toilet, they have to
have a kitchen. If there be no kitchen, no one can live there. You may
construct any type of palace, but if there is no food, no lunch, no breakfast,
no afternoon tea—even for a day—no one will live there.
But then, when a
kitchen is there, you have to provide drainage also. Kitchen means garbage,
left-over food, vegetable cuttings, fruit peels and all that. If all this is
kept, it will begin to rot and so you have to have a garbage disposal
arrangement. You have to have drainage and sewerage. In the absence of all
these arrangements, it will not be possible to live in that mansion. Likewise,
in the human body, in this mansion of Nine gates, in this Navadvara Kuti नवद्वार
कुटि,( Nine Doors House) where you have an
entrance way and windows for light and air and knowledge, for the sake of
drainage and garbage disposal, God has provided two holes.
Their real importance
is that of drainage. They are only drains. This is the only right understanding
of the matter. No doubt, the occasional function of reproduction is there, but
to over-exaggerate that aspect is foolish. It betrays a lack of knowledge.
Because, from birth until death, day after day, thirty days in a month, and three
hundred and sixty-five days in the year, the constant function that these exit
gates have to fulfill is drainage. And the occasional function that they have
to fulfill is in cooperating with Brahma, but that is only some rare occasional
function and that also, only in a very short period of one’s life. In the first
Ashrama आश्रम of Brahmacharya ब्रह्मचार्य, it has
no place; in the third Ashrama आश्रम of
Vanaprastha वानप्रस्थ, it has no place; and in the fourth
Ashrama of Sannyasa संन्यास आश्रम,
it has no place. Out of the whole life, it is only in one Ashrama आश्रम
that that particular function of it is exercised. Otherwise, the main function
of these outlets is only drainage of impurities.
If you change your
Drishtikona दृष्टिकोण
(Vision/viewpoint) and understand
the body in the right perspective, then a great deal of your problem will be
solved. It is taking a wrong view and giving a wrong emphasis which makes one
to get into all sorts of difficulties. Secondly, take a look at it from the
Vedantic वेदांतिक point of view. The Adesha आदेश
or Sandesha संदेश (The Message or instructions) of Vedanta वेदांता,
the primary declaration of Vedanta वेदांता, is that
you are not this body, but that you are the Ajara अजर Amara अमर
Avinashi अविनाशी Atma आत्मा. (For ever,
for always, and cannot have destruction) Then, if you are not to identify
yourself with your entire body, how can you identify yourself with one aspect
of it? So, if your faith in Vedanta वेदांता is Pucca पक्का
(Confirmed), is firm and genuine, if you are true to your Vedanta वेदांता,
then, you have your solution in your own hand.
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