You need to remember that the body is not outside you. It is a part of you, the physical aspect. It is not devoid of you or disconnected from you. Therefore you have to deal with it. Do not avoid dealing with your body. It is a needful instrument. It is only when you get identified with the body or attached, believing, I am this, then you are lost because the body is not the totality. It is a part of you. Other parts are mind, intellect, ego, et cetera, until you come to Spirit. Once you have done that, the body is no longer a problem. It is a problem in the process of identification and non-identification. In Ultimate Realization, as you find out who you really are, your body is not a problem. It is just one end of your whole creation. So you do not discard it or reject or neglect it. You attend to it.

      The body is not the total you; it is a tiny portion of the whole creation. Seventy-five percent of God’s creation is not manifested at all. Twenty-five percent is manifested, which includes your astral and physical body. That means your physical portion may be ten to fifteen percent of the whole of what we call God or the total you. Normally we consider that body to be ninety percent or ninety-five percent of who we are. Then the totality, which is God, is neglected. Attend to your body as ten percent of your whole consciousness, fifteen percent at the most. Beyond that you will be body-identified, thickened physicality.