The body has its birth subsequent to ‘I-thought’. So its birth is secondary. Get rid of the primary cause and the secondary one will disappear by itself.

Ramana Maharishi:  Who is born? Is the Self born? Or is it the body?

Devotee:  It is the body.

Ramana Maharishi:  Then let the body ask how its rebirth may cease.

Devotee:  It will not ask. So I am asking.

Ramana Maharishi:   Whose is the body? You were without it in your deep sleep. After the ‘I-thought’ arose the body arose. The first birth is that of ‘I thought’. The body has its birth subsequent to ‘I-thought’. So its birth is secondary.  Get rid of the primary cause and the secondary one will disappear by itself.