If You Are Not the Body, What Happens When Your Body Is Violated? | Sādhana Stories | Episode 9

If you believe that you are not the body, what happens when your body is actually threatened? In Episode 9 of Sādhana Stories with Sharath, the conversation continues from the philosophical tension between Yoga and Vedanta. If, at the paramārthika level, there is no body, no mind and no duality, then what does it mean to practice yoga, protect the body, fulfil responsibilities and live in the world? Apoorva explores the distinction between vyāvahārika and paramārthika reality, and explains how karma, bhakti and rāja yoga can operate within everyday life while jñāna points toward a deeper understanding of reality. But Sharath takes the idea out of philosophy and into an uncomfortable situation. If you know that you are not the body, what happens when someone violates or threatens your body? Do you protect something that you believe is not ultimately you? Or does the experience still feel like an attack on you?