Is the body an entity?

Nothing really dies. 

What is called death―even of the smallest and apparently most inanimate thing―is merely a change of form and condition of the energy and activities, which constitute it. 

Even the body does not die, in the strict sense of the word. 

The body is not an entity―

It is merely an aggregation of cells, and these cells are merely material vehicles for a certain form of energy, which animates and vitalises them. 

When the soul passes from the body, the units composing the body manifest repulsion for each other―in place of the attraction, which formerly held them together. 

The unifying force, which has held them together withdraws its power, and the reverse activity is manifested. 

―Yogi Ramacharaka