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Positive thinking guards the body against disease
Spirituality and optimistic thinking have a definite bearing on our health and on our body’s healing faculties. Being positive strengthens the immune system, changes our metabolic and endocrinal system and fights diseases. Prevention is better than cure no one can dispute that and spirituality and positive thinking guards the body against disease. What is Spirituality? Spirituality is a firm belief in God and in qualities such as positive thinking, love and compassion. A spiritual person can detach himself from the environment and focus on God or the Universal Consciousness. Spirituality can be defined as an inner path that enables a person to discover the essence of their being, or the deepest values and meanings by which people live. Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayers and contemplation, are intended to develop an individual’s inner life. When this is developed, people appear to have better physical, mental and social health. A spiritual person has lower anxiety levels or psychological problems too. He is also more optimistic, hopeful, happy and social. A believer in God and spirituality always thinks positively. Krishna said in the Bhagavad Gita that whatever happens is for the best and one should accept that what happened and will happen too is for the best. Such thinking is suffused with positive energy, so important for self-healing. Good health doesn’t mean just absence of disease, but also implies complete physical, mental and social well-being. From negative to positive Positive thinking is an attitude that anticipates success and favourable outcomes in all situations. The thought process begins in your brain and the brain starts changing negative thoughts to positive. Research has also proven that spiritual thoughts and positive thinking helps people fight chronic diseases. Lord Krishna in the Gita focuses on actions without desire of results. Positive thinking people say that so long as they do their job well and with 100% commitment, the result will automatically be good. Such an attitude saves one from depression and stress, which, in turn, causes a host of problems for the body.
When body is showing signs of disease ,that means the mind is at disease
When body is showing signs of disease ,that means the mind is at disease.You are carrying thoughts which are not in harmony with heart and soul.
It is good that you want to come out of that.The suggested actions are:-
Briefly, your present state of being is reminder to turn clock back by paying attention to your food,emotions and sleep.
And start reading Gita ,may be from today itself.
It is good that you want to come out of that.The suggested actions are:-
- Start reading Gita at earliest.Gita will show you the path.Commit strongly to read Gita every day in morning and in night
- Consult Nutrition expert and follow food suggested food by him.Increase intake of fruits,dry fruits,sprouts, vegetables, nuts.Avoid processed and packaged food,carbonated drinks.Have food on time.
- Practice forgiveness and gratitude.Say to yourself every night-I am willing to forgive now completely and un-conditionally. Express gratitude for what you have.Practicing forgiveness and gratitude should take care of resentment ,which you might have been carrying for so long causing BP and body ache and pain.
- We have to take care of our emotions to take care of our body.Our emotions create the body.Unhealthy emotions will not result in healthy body.
- You need to take care of sleep.Go to bed by 10-10.30 in night.Chant OM till you sleep.If the emotions are not good ,good sleep is not possible.
- You can do breathing meditations for 10-15 minutes every day.
Briefly, your present state of being is reminder to turn clock back by paying attention to your food,emotions and sleep.
And start reading Gita ,may be from today itself.
whatever object or being a man thinks of at the time of his death or departure from the body, that alone does he attain
yum yum vaapi smaranbhaavam tyajatyante kalevaram
tam tamevaiti kaunteya sadaa tadbhaavbhaavitah (Gita 8/6)
O Kaunteya (Arjuna), whatever object or being a man thinks of at the time of his death or departure from the body, that alone does he attain, being ever absorbed in its thought. (in other words he takes birth in those wombs) (Gita 8/6)
A being is reborn in the body he thinks of at the time of death. As is his nature, he thinks accordingly at the time of death. As a man tending to a pet dog thinks of it at the time of death, he is born as a dog. As the programme broadcast from a particular radio station is received at a particular wave-length and then spreads in the form of sound, the thought of a dog with which he has been connected is caught by him somehow. The soul with subtle and causal bodies enters the body of the dog via water, air (breath) or food etc. Thereafter, it enters the body of a female dog and takes birth as a puppy at the appropriate time. This can be explained with the help of an illustration. A person goes to a photographer and requests him to take his photograph. The photographer advises him to keep a smiling face without any movement. But when the photographer asks him to be ready, a fly sits on his nose and so he moves his facial muscles to get rid of that fly. The result is that in the photograph he appears with a distorted face. In the same way, a man is reborn according to his thoughts at the time of death.
As far as the time to take a photograph is concerned, we know it before hand, but we do not know the time of death. So, by purifying our nature and thoughts, we should be ever alert and think of Him at all times (Gita 8/5, 7).
In this directive of the Lord is seen His justice, as well as mercy. Generally, justice and mercy (compassion) seem incompatible, because if there is justice, there cannot be compassion (mercy), while having mercy, justice cannot be done. The reason is that in doing proper justice there is no leeway, but in mercy, concessions are made. As such, this rule is applicable to ordinary unkind human beings, not to the Lord, as He is the most gracious One, and is a disinterested friend of all beings, (Gita 5/29). So, all His ordinances and rules are full of justice and mercy.
Whatever being a man thinks of at the time of death, he acquires the same form on rebirth. If he dies thinking of a dog, he is reborn as a dog. This is God's justice. But He has given freedom of choice to man, to think either of a dog or of a man, or of God, and this is His mercy. A man can attain God, simply by thinking of Him, as he can obtain the body of a dog, by thinking of it. If a man starts thinking of God's justice and compassion, he will be attracted towards God alone.
“I am not this Body.” Easy to say…
The body is a machine, like a motor car is a machine. I am within this body as the driver is within the motor car.
Now the motor car has many needs. It needs gas, it needs oil, it needs to have it’s tires pumped up and so on. But if one forgets the driver in the car and simply concentrates on the machine and the needs of the machine the driver will not be satisfied.
He will be sitting in the car starving. Because the food of the driver is different from the food of the car. You can not feed the driver gas. His food is different.
So we are the driver of this body. This body has so many needs, but these bodily needs are different from our needs, we are the driver of the body, the soul within the body, “the ghost in the machine…”
So our idea is to satisfy the bodily needs only as much as necessary to maintain the body in a healthy condition and spend the rest of our time and energy in spiritual activities which help us to reawaken our original spiritual consciousness, these are our real needs, the needs of the soul.
It is not that we do not eat, or sleep, or have sex or defend, but these things are done in a regulated way to maintain the body in a healthy condition. But as the motor car is simply a vehicle which is meant to transport the driver to his destination, we see this material body as a vehicle which can be used to transport the driver–the soul–to his ultimate destination: back home, back to Godhead.
If we spend all our time trying to satisfy the senses of our body we will waste all our time and energy in this way and become completely distracted from the real purpose of life which is to get out of this material world and get back home to the spiritual world where we will get an eternally youthful spiritual body full of knowledge and full of pleasure… Then we will really be happy…
Now the motor car has many needs. It needs gas, it needs oil, it needs to have it’s tires pumped up and so on. But if one forgets the driver in the car and simply concentrates on the machine and the needs of the machine the driver will not be satisfied.
He will be sitting in the car starving. Because the food of the driver is different from the food of the car. You can not feed the driver gas. His food is different.
So we are the driver of this body. This body has so many needs, but these bodily needs are different from our needs, we are the driver of the body, the soul within the body, “the ghost in the machine…”
So our idea is to satisfy the bodily needs only as much as necessary to maintain the body in a healthy condition and spend the rest of our time and energy in spiritual activities which help us to reawaken our original spiritual consciousness, these are our real needs, the needs of the soul.
It is not that we do not eat, or sleep, or have sex or defend, but these things are done in a regulated way to maintain the body in a healthy condition. But as the motor car is simply a vehicle which is meant to transport the driver to his destination, we see this material body as a vehicle which can be used to transport the driver–the soul–to his ultimate destination: back home, back to Godhead.
If we spend all our time trying to satisfy the senses of our body we will waste all our time and energy in this way and become completely distracted from the real purpose of life which is to get out of this material world and get back home to the spiritual world where we will get an eternally youthful spiritual body full of knowledge and full of pleasure… Then we will really be happy…
Experience of Being Separate from this Body
God has endowed man with ample of ammunition for attaining his salvation. Rather He has given more than is essential. He has given a long life. Salvation is possible in minutes, but for that he has given years. With a little inquiry one can attain salvation, but he has give a lot of power of inquiry and contemplation. He has given ample of instruments by which man can attain his salvation several times over! Whereas, once salvation is attained, there is no need for attaining it a second time. God has given man, such extra-ordinary things. Just as when you inquire on this one point - you have clear knowledge that from childhood till today, the place, time, thing, individual, situation, incidents all changed, but you are the same. Leave all that changes, and that which does not change, grab hold of it then right now, at this very moment you can attain salvation. That which changes is not my true Self (swaroop) and that which does not change is my true Self. That is all the work there is.
In many circumstances, in many incidents, you remained one. After traveling in various countries, then too you remained one. After a significant passage of time, then too you remained the same. Even if everything changes, then too you remained the same. That which remains the same, that which does not change, you see it by separating it from the one that is changing, then that is it, Essential Knowledge, Truth is realized. But if you blend the two and see, then it is ignorance.
Those brothers and sisters that are engaged in spiritual disciplines, their minds have one point strongly ingrained in them, that this mind should become free of all modifications (changes), that it remain unaffected in an situations or incidents then realization of essential knowledge will take place. But if they are affected in situations, then realization has not taken place. Understand this point very well, that who is affected? The impressions are made on the mind, on the intellects, on the body on the sense organs, but the Self remains unaffected. Money came, you benefited, your mind became happy, and when you lost the money, you suffered losses, and then your mind became unhappy. In gains and losses the mind was affected in two different ways, but you remained as-is. Is it possible that you were different one when you have gains and different one when you had losses? If you weren't the same one, than who would have had the knowledge of both the gains and the losses. You remain equanimous. You remain one. There is no affect on you at all. The affect is on the mind-intellect.
A Self Realized great soul who is free from birth and death, he too becomes from a youth to an old man, and may not be able to see or hear as well, may not be able to walk and move around easily, but is there any changes in his knowledge? Body, senses, mind, intellect - these all are the kind that are changing. Among these if some changed, some had an affect of them, then what happened? You blend with these and consider yourself to have become happy and sad - this is he main mistake. You remain firm on the point that I am the very same one. The one that was present during happy times, that very same one I am during the unhappy moments and vice-versa. In this way, by not blending with that which comes and goes, to remain established in the Self is to be "swasth". "Samdukhahsukhah swastah" (Gita 14/24). Becoming happy and sad by blending with that which comes and goes, is to remain established in Prakruti (Nature). "purushah prakritishtho hi bhukte" (gita 13/21). You are not established in Nature at all, but knowingly you become established in it. You are neither in happiness, nor is unhappiness, nor in gains, nor in losses, nor in any birth, nor in any death.
You are separate from all of this. Intentionally you pull it and draw it close to you and become happy and unhappy; and then you say that I cannot seem to get enlightened! You only remain firm on this one point, that I am that very same one. If there are gains then too I am the same one, if there are losses then too I am the same one. You become established in the Self (Swa). That Self (Swa) is eternally without any modifications. There is no changes in the Self. All changes are in the inner faculties and by blending with them you too consider yourself as undergoing all these modifications and become happy and sad.
Whether some good thoughts come to mind, or some bad thoughts, whether deep regrets, or worries, whether you are elated, whether you are attracted, or whether there is aversion - in spite of all this happening, you remain established in the self. Do not mingle with it. By blending with it, is becoming established in the world (in nature). On becoming established in nature, you will incur sins, you will have to suffer, and in turn you will have to go through 8.4 million birth cycles, they may be hell, there will be birth and death - "kaaran gunasangosya sadsadyonijanmasu" (gita 13/21).
Therefore that which takes place, that which turns bad, that which comes, that which goes, seeing all of this, remain established in the Self, as you are the seer of everything (i.e. separate from the act). In happy times also you are the seer, and in unhappy times also you are the seer. You see the union also and you see the separation also. The seer is separate the object being seen - this is a rule. Therefore what difference has it made to you, the seer? You have remained As-Is, the same.
In many circumstances, in many incidents, you remained one. After traveling in various countries, then too you remained one. After a significant passage of time, then too you remained the same. Even if everything changes, then too you remained the same. That which remains the same, that which does not change, you see it by separating it from the one that is changing, then that is it, Essential Knowledge, Truth is realized. But if you blend the two and see, then it is ignorance.
Those brothers and sisters that are engaged in spiritual disciplines, their minds have one point strongly ingrained in them, that this mind should become free of all modifications (changes), that it remain unaffected in an situations or incidents then realization of essential knowledge will take place. But if they are affected in situations, then realization has not taken place. Understand this point very well, that who is affected? The impressions are made on the mind, on the intellects, on the body on the sense organs, but the Self remains unaffected. Money came, you benefited, your mind became happy, and when you lost the money, you suffered losses, and then your mind became unhappy. In gains and losses the mind was affected in two different ways, but you remained as-is. Is it possible that you were different one when you have gains and different one when you had losses? If you weren't the same one, than who would have had the knowledge of both the gains and the losses. You remain equanimous. You remain one. There is no affect on you at all. The affect is on the mind-intellect.
A Self Realized great soul who is free from birth and death, he too becomes from a youth to an old man, and may not be able to see or hear as well, may not be able to walk and move around easily, but is there any changes in his knowledge? Body, senses, mind, intellect - these all are the kind that are changing. Among these if some changed, some had an affect of them, then what happened? You blend with these and consider yourself to have become happy and sad - this is he main mistake. You remain firm on the point that I am the very same one. The one that was present during happy times, that very same one I am during the unhappy moments and vice-versa. In this way, by not blending with that which comes and goes, to remain established in the Self is to be "swasth". "Samdukhahsukhah swastah" (Gita 14/24). Becoming happy and sad by blending with that which comes and goes, is to remain established in Prakruti (Nature). "purushah prakritishtho hi bhukte" (gita 13/21). You are not established in Nature at all, but knowingly you become established in it. You are neither in happiness, nor is unhappiness, nor in gains, nor in losses, nor in any birth, nor in any death.
You are separate from all of this. Intentionally you pull it and draw it close to you and become happy and unhappy; and then you say that I cannot seem to get enlightened! You only remain firm on this one point, that I am that very same one. If there are gains then too I am the same one, if there are losses then too I am the same one. You become established in the Self (Swa). That Self (Swa) is eternally without any modifications. There is no changes in the Self. All changes are in the inner faculties and by blending with them you too consider yourself as undergoing all these modifications and become happy and sad.
Whether some good thoughts come to mind, or some bad thoughts, whether deep regrets, or worries, whether you are elated, whether you are attracted, or whether there is aversion - in spite of all this happening, you remain established in the self. Do not mingle with it. By blending with it, is becoming established in the world (in nature). On becoming established in nature, you will incur sins, you will have to suffer, and in turn you will have to go through 8.4 million birth cycles, they may be hell, there will be birth and death - "kaaran gunasangosya sadsadyonijanmasu" (gita 13/21).
Therefore that which takes place, that which turns bad, that which comes, that which goes, seeing all of this, remain established in the Self, as you are the seer of everything (i.e. separate from the act). In happy times also you are the seer, and in unhappy times also you are the seer. You see the union also and you see the separation also. The seer is separate the object being seen - this is a rule. Therefore what difference has it made to you, the seer? You have remained As-Is, the same.
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