In spiritual existence, everything must be spiritual. Therefore there is no distinction between the body and its owner

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"In spiritual existence, everything must be spiritual. Therefore there is no distinction between the body and its owner"

CC Antya-lila

For the ordinary living being in material existence there is a division or distinction between the body and the owner of the body. In spiritual existence, however, everything must be spiritual. Therefore there is no distinction between the body and its owner.

CC Antya 5.114, Translation and Purport:

The poet said, “Lord Jagannātha is a most beautiful body, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is exceptionally grave, is the owner of that body.

Śarīrī refers to a person who owns the śarīra, or body. As stated in the Bhagavad-gītā (2.13):

dehino ‘smin yathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā

tathā dehāntara-prāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati

"As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change." For the ordinary living being in material existence there is a division or distinction between the body and the owner of the body. In spiritual existence, however, there is no such distinction, for the body is the owner himself and the owner is the body itself. In spiritual existence, everything must be spiritual. Therefore there is no distinction between the body and its owner.