Sri Sarada Devi.

 

Everything–husband, wife, or even the body–is only illusory. All these are shackles of illusion. Unless you can free yourself from these bondages, you will never be able to cross to the other shore of the world. This attachment to the body, the identification of the Self with the body, must go. What is this body? It is nothing but three pounds of ashes when it is cremated. Why so much vanity about it? However large or beautiful this body may be, its end is in those three pounds of ashes. And still people are so attached to it!