How does Chapter 43 describe the relationship between a saint's consciousness and their physical body, especially concerning illness and death?

πŸ“– Chapter 43

Chapter 43 presents a sophisticated view of the body as merely an 'adjunct' for a perfected saint. It posits that for someone like Sai Baba, who is the Supreme Brahman and a 'mass of bliss,' there is no true consciousness of the body. Concepts like mental or physical illness are irrelevant; even if they arise due to past karma, the saint has no awareness of them. Death itself is described as the nature of the body, even a 'state of happiness for the body.' For a Yogi who has already 'turned the body to ashes' even before it falls, death is like dust. As Chapter 43 explains, Sai Baba is devoid of bodily impulses, and his apparent death was a voluntary act of merging into the unmanifest, not a submission to physical decay.


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