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sridatta1 · Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Posts: 637 Location: india

The body in which God-charged soul exists is called as the pious place
Vishishtaatmanah shariram kshetramiti lokavat.

(The body in which God-charged soul exists is called as the pious place or kshetram, which means the sacred place in which God is believed to exist in the statue of a temple).

The body of the human incarnation in which the God-charged soul exists is called as kshetram, which is the sacred place of the temple of God in which God is believed to exist in the statue. If you take Kashi, it is called as Kshetram or pious place because it is believed that Lord Shiva exists in the Lingam present in the temple in Kashi. Though the same Shiva Lingam exists in a temple present in other city, it is not called as Kshetram because the existence of Lord Shiva in the Lingam of other city is not believed. Hence, the bodies of the ordinary human beings are called by the word shariram. The same body and the same soul exist in human incarnation also. But since God exists in the soul of human incarnation, the body of human incarnation is called as Kshetram like Kashi city. Even though, the same body and the same soul exist in other human beings also, those bodies are not called as Kshetram, since God does not exist in those souls. In Gita, it is said that the body of Krishna is called as Kshetram.