28. Our body is a temple; keep it healthy and clean

Teachings to treasure, teachings that transform. Thirumoolar Thavamozhi Motivation 28. Our body is a temple; keep it healthy and clean The Thirumandiram is filled with experiential knowledge of our Saint Thirumoolar. Our Saint has lovingly composed and sung poems to share with joy his experiences from his personal spiritual practices, in simple Tamil. Though we know that our body will perish one day, there is an important exercise, called “Kaya siddhi”, that helps to keep the body healthy and fit while the body is alive. Our saint Thirumoolar sings nicely explaining the importance of taking care of the body and keeping it healthy. Using our own body, we need to perform the tasks that benefit our soul to achieve the purpose of this life. If our body perishes, before we achieve the purpose of life, it will be a huge waste of life or being born with a human body! உடம்பார் அழியில் உயிரார் அழிவர் உடம்பார் அழியில் – if the body perishes; உயிரார் அழி...