There is a recent story related to the first Jagadguru Adi Shakarachary.

He was challenged by a lady that he did not have knowledge of romance and therefore he could not claim to be all knowing person which was what his title meant. Shankarachary told the lady to come back after a year or so.

He gave serious thought to what the lady said. After some days there was a news that a king of a near by state had died. Shankaracharya told his disciples,'I am going out of this body for a year. Preserve this body. I will be back after the year.' He then came out of the body and entered into the body of the dead king.

The king got up. The court-men realized that it was the case alien-entry into the body. They were sure that such act can be done only by spiritually advanced soul. Hence orders were given to servants to find out and destroy any such body that had been being protected at any hidden site. However, servants could not trace any.

King was not the same person as he was earlier. His queens asked him,'You don't look to be same. It seems that the stroke had changed you. Earlier you would watch us dancing with joy and after the dance you would embrace us. But, now you look so disenchanted. You have lost the interest in us.'

Shankarachary continued his stay in the King's body for about a year. During that time he romanced with King's wives and gained knowledge of other household activities.

After a year he left the king's body and went back to his body that was preserved by his disciples. He got up as one would get up after deep sleep.

The point is the soul is different from body. One should be able to conceptualize that way. Body is just like a bottle while soul is like elixir in the bottle. Value is not that of casing but that of content.

What Shankarachary did was a demonstration his stature. It is not at all necessary to think on those lines. In fact, mind must be diverted from finite material happiness to infinite divine happiness.