Thus Spake Sri Rama

The sayings in this section have been collected from various sources like the Valmiki Ramayana, Adhyatma Ramayana and the Yoga Vasishtha Ramayana. 

• As the bee leaves the lotus dried up due to snow fall, so also when this body is attacked with fell disease and old age, the bee of life leaves it, and the lake of the world becomes completely dried.
• This fragile and changeable body with its complexities of the entrails and the nerves - this too is a prolific source of sorrow.
• In spite of its materiality, the body has the semblance of consciousness owing to its being inhabited by the Atman with its five sheaths.
• The dwelling place of the infatuated soul, this body, incapable of discriminating between permanence and evanescence, serves only to throw men into the pit of ignorance. The slightest provocation will suffice to fill it with joy or suffuse it with tears. Hence nothing can be found so contemptible, lamentable and so utterly devoid of good points as the body.