Lawrence does not believe that a body is a mere vessel for containing the soul and that the soul is the only alive entity. He provides the example of a hand. A hand writes the words. It has a life of its own. It hops from word to word like a grasshopper and knows the universe through the sensory route of touch. It numbs and slows down if the author writes for too long and it is just as much active and alive as the mind which dictates the words to be written. Hence, denying the hand to be a lifeless object only to be used as a medium of writing is completely incorrect according to the author. Similarly, a parson talks about the importance of souls in heaven. How- ever, being a novelist, Lawrence says that ‘paradise is in the palm of your hand’. A philosopher talks about infinity and the pure spirit who knows everything. However, Lawrence says that “infinity is just a handle to this self-same jug of a body of mine”. A burning finger brings such incitement and knowing that it renders the concept of Nirvana as a mere conjecture. Hence, the body is alive, perhaps more alive than any other entity and denying it is an erroneous decision by spiritual thinkers.