“Body is only given to you as a medium for you to know the Self”

A week later, on 29 April 1926, Baba used the simile of a cup and saucer to explain that the body was only a means to liberation:

Fulfill your duties to your family and earn enough for their needs, but avoid excessive ambition or indulgence in worldly desires. Work hard, but don't become a slave to bodily pleasures by seeking more than necessary. The body is temporary, a tool for Self-realization, and will eventually be shed. Its true purpose is to help you know the Self.

The use of a cup and saucer is for drinking tea (or water, or milk); that is, the cup and saucer are a means for drinking tea. The moment the tea is drunk and emptied into your stomach, those means [the cup and saucer] are to be put aside. In the same way, once you get Realization, this body, which is only a means towards that aim, is to be given up. For what is the use of it then [after Realization]?

-Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai

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