A plantain tree has a number of uses: the leaf is used to eat one's meal from, the flower is used to prepare a few dishes, and the outer covers of the trunk can be used for binding and packing things as a good string-yielding substance, but, the main use of the tree is in the bunch of bananas! You take all the trouble of planting and growing the tree for the sake of the bananas, not the leaves, the strings, the inner soft core, or the flower. So too, the main use of this human body is the realisation of Reality! The rest is all incidental. The hands may be used for a variety of operations, but the chief purpose for which man has been endowed with them is to pray, to perform worship, and to hold the Feet of the Lord. The ears are designed to hear the glory of God, and the eyes to stand witness to His manifestations! The tongue may be used to talk scandal or to flatter those in authority, but that is really misuse! Use it as God willed it to be used - for singing hymns of Divine Glory.(Divine Discourse, Feb 21,1971)