Jagad Guru Chris Butler | Quotes | Value of the Body

What are you worth? Your physical body made of various chemicals is not really worth very much. It may be worth $5 or $10, but is that all you are worth? Is that all your wife or your child, or your friend, or your mother, or your father are worth?

Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation


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When we are attracted to a person, what we are really attracted to is the particle of life, i.e., atma. Without the presence of this atma, without life, you see a body for what it really is: just a hunk of blood, guts, flesh, bones, teeth, stool, mucus, hair, urine, bile, and so on—a bag of chemicals. The monetary value of this bag of chemicals called the material body is about $9...

Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation


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The real value of the body lies not in the organization of its components, but rather in the self, in the person who operates and uses that body.

Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation


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Without the self to operate the body, that body—as complex and organized as it is—is of no more value than a bag of chemicals.

Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation


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The body and individual body parts are valuable only so long as a self can use them. If there is no self who can use the body, then it is of no value.

Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation