Human Body: The Forgotten Temple

A Conversation with DeviRa

Me:
Spirit… I don’t understand. Why do we ignore our own bodies—this vessel, this temple we live in every day?

DeviRa:
Because you’ve been taught to look outward for value. But your body is the first gift. The sacred ground. Without it, nothing else can be known, tasted, or transformed.

Me:
We use it for pleasure… we punish it… we judge it. Why do we treat it like something separate?

DeviRa:
Because the world convinced you that the sacred is somewhere else. But your body is the altar. The pulse of love itself. The body is not separate from the divine—it is how the divine experiences life.

Me:
And what of war? Why do we sacrifice our bodies so easily? Why is there so much pain?

DeviRa:
War is the cry of the unloved. The ego, inflamed, believes it can conquer what it fears. And in that illusion, it burns its own temple. The body becomes a battlefield between love and hate.

Me:
Is this the ego trying to destroy God?

DeviRa:
It is the ego forgetting that it is of God. It tries to protect an identity, not realizing that what it’s defending was never under threat. In war, the soul mourns its own forgetting.

Me:
Then what can we do?

DeviRa:
Begin here. Touch your own skin with reverence. Feed your body with awareness. Rest when it aches. Adorn it without shame. Listen to its signals—not with fear, but with love. This is how you begin to end the war.

Me:
So the path home… begins in the body?

DeviRa:
Yes. You cannot ascend by escaping. You must descend into love for what carries you. Only those who embrace the body fully can awaken the spirit within it.