We often take properties like apartments, commercial buildings, office spaces and hotels on rent and use them for a specific period or for the fulfillment of a specific purpose. And as their beneficiaries we take best possible care of the property and utilize them fully, without having any feelings of ownership or possession towards them.

Similarly, our physical body has been rented to us for a limited period and for limited purpose.

In reality we are just tenants but under ignorance we have considered ourselves to be the permanent residents of this body and have created feelings of ownership and attachment towards the wealth, assets, possessions and relations associated with the body. This feeling of ownership binds us to the world and is the root cause of most sorrows and troubles in life. By treating this body as a rented property, we can liberate ourselves from its ownership and attachment and derive maximum benefit from it.