Learned men, conversant with spiritual science say that the body is a compound of arteries and sinews and bones and much repulsive and impure matter and a compound of essences, and the senses and the objects of the senses born of desire, all having an outer cover of skin close to them. Shorn of beauty and other accomplishments, this compound, through force of the desires of a pristine life, assumes a human forin.
शिरास्नायवस्थिसंघातं बीभत्सामेध्यसंकुलम्। भूतानामिन्द्रियाणां च गुणानां च समागमम्॥ त्वगन्तं देहमित्याहुर्विद्वांसोऽध्यात्मचिन्तकाः। गुणैरपि परिक्षीणं शरीरं मर्त्यतां गतम्॥