When the soul and the body are different, why do self-realized souls suffer bodily pain – Hindi?

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So then, the great spiritualists, why do they also suffer physically? Here, the body and the soul are separate. This is an intellectual truth and its behavioral side.
So how is it? Suppose, I have to go somewhere. So if I am going by car. If the car is punctured.
So now, the car being punctured is a problem. Suppose, I am going and I have a fracture. This is another problem.
Now, both are problems of different levels. The car being punctured and my leg being fractured are at different levels. But both are the same problem.
So, if I have to go to some event, there can be an accident. Even if the car is punctured, there will be a problem. Suppose, there is a person who can come out of his car.
And the car gets a little scratch. What did you do? He starts screaming. Why? What is there? Now, the car has been scratched.
Nothing has happened to the person. But if he can come, then suppose, he has a heart attack. My car is also scratched.
Because he can come there. So, in the same way, our body is like a car for the soul. So, even if you are a pure devotee, for them… Now, the example of a car is both right and wrong.
How is it right? If my car is punctured, I can go in another car. But our soul is in one body. So, that body cannot change in this life.
So, if I have to go to some program, the car is punctured, there is no other car. So, I have to fix that same puncture and go. So, that is a problem, a big problem.
So, in the same way, the pure devotees also have a body. This is a tool. They don’t recognize themselves with the body.
But a body is a tool. And it is not a tool, it is a necessary tool. It is necessary and necessary.
Without it, they cannot do anything. So, if they also have some problems in the body, they also have problems. So, for them, it is less of a pain and more of an inconvenience.
It is not a pain, it is an inconvenience. So, for us, when we are attached, like if a person is attached to his car, so even if there is a little scratch on the car, it is not a scratch on the car, it is an inconvenience. And it is not a pain for him, it is a big accident.
It is a big shock, not an accident, it is a shock for him. Why? Because he is attached to it. So, in the same way, the more we are attached to the body, the more we are affected by it when the body has a problem.
If we are not attached to the body, then we are not affected by the problems of the body. But still, it is an inconvenience. So, we say that the soul is separate from the body.
This does not mean that the soul has nothing to do with the body. As long as we are in this body, this body is our necessary and necessary tool. That is why it is very important to take care of it.
And when… I am going to talk about Soumedhanshivta and Asoumedhanshivta on Wednesday. So, it is not that if someone has a disease, then if that person has a disease, then he can think that this has happened according to my whole karma. But we don’t have to think that you have done a lot of bad karma, that’s why you did this.
If we have a problem with any Vaishnava, then we have to see that I have a chance to serve a Vaishnava. So, what we have to see is that we always have to take care of the person. And if a devotee is in pain, if he is in some problem, inconvenience, whatever it is, then what we have to do is we have to help him and take care of him.
So, mind and body and soul are separate, but for the soul, the body is an important facility. So, if there is a problem in the body, then it can be a big inconvenience.