Question

What are the arguments presented in the essay against the denial of the body by spiritual thinkers?

Answer 1

The author, D.H. Lawrence, compares a human body to that of a vessel containing the soul and that the soul is the only thing alive. Life is most meaningful, and being active is the most fantastic thing. Humans are just limited to the body, which overlooks the importance of the body and restricts them to the body. The author uses an example of the hand and denies the hand to be a lifeless object used only as a medium of writing is entirely incorrect, says the author. Similarly, a person talks about the importance of souls in heaven. However, the author Lawrence, being a novelist, says that 'paradise is in the palm of your hand'. A philosopher talks about infinity and the pure spirit who knows everything. But these are just pieces of life that act as messages or news being read over the radio. Hence, the body is alive, man is more alive than any other entity and denying it is a wrong decision by spiritual thinkers.