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All of us have three bodies. The physical body is gross-bulky or lean, tall or short, white or brown, masculine of feminine, healthy or sickly and so on. In this body is yet another body which acts and moves, speaks and sings, suffers and enjoys and that is the mind, the subtle body with which we experience all in the dream. To enjoy or endure the fruits of our actions performed with the gross and the subtle bodies, we have the causal body. It is this body that is reborn taking upon it once again the subtle and gross bodies. This is but the chain of birth, death and rebirth to bind us forever in serfdom. Gross body may be bound in some. Even if it is free, subtle body is bound in the chains of attachment in some. And finally the casual body is forever in chains, unless and until it extricates itself from all and merges with the all pervading Brahman or Atman. In other words the Jiva is to merge with Siva, the drop is to merge with the ocean, the ghatakasa is to merge with mahakasa, the salt doll is to merge with the sea.
"Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.
If the fisherman thinks that he is the Spirit, he will be a better fisherman, if the student thinks he is the Spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks that he is the Spirit, he will be a better lawyer.
All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak. Stand up and express the divinity within you."--- Swami Vivekananda
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