Part - II . Diseases & Their Prevention

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Part - II . Diseases & Their Prevention

 

1. NOT FOR DISEASE BUT FOR HAPPINESS

 

These are brought about by a degenerated mind functioning through the spoilt

senses. One may say in short that any sensation akin to pleasure born out of

impurity of the body, mind and senses or a combination of the three is not

pleasure or happiness. Happiness is born only out of purity. That which is born

out of impurity can only be debased, transient or illusive pleasure, never real

happiness

Let me illustrate this statement. A discussion-cum-research into happiness is

quite essential. A mistaken sense of happiness and false pursuits to obtain them

are responsible for bodily and mental ills. It is man’s instinct to go after

happiness. This cannot be removed or denied. If one really comes to realise what

true happiness is and lasting joy, then he would have walked almost the full way

in the prevention of diseases and also their eradication.

 

Let us take an example. People derive pleasure through eating. We take this as

our first illustration because we may say, a large percentage of diseases

originate in wrong and mistaken habits of eating induced through search of a

pleasure derived through the palate. Pleasure derived through eating is

dependent on that curious, all-powerful instrument, the tongue, with its sense

of taste. Nature has endowed us with the sense of taste and provided the tongue

as an instrument to discriminate, accept or reject things. In nature’s scheme of

things this taste and its instrument, the tongue have been provided to protect

the body, to prevent injurious products from getting into the body. It has been

endowed with the discriminatory power to select in tune with Nature and

according to the requirements of the human organism. The eating caused by a

natural inducement called hunger, sustains the body, replaces the waste products

and supplies each part with its necessary nourishment. The habit of

eating is responsible for eating food of the proper type at the proper time. As

a help for carrying out these self-protective functions, the pleasure of eating

has been put into us. We call it relish. This relish of the food or the pleasure

of eating is a natural urge for preservation of life. There is a natural

attraction towards food and eating. The satisfaction of this natural urge gives

us pleasure or happiness. This pleasure in its reality is born through habits

which are natural and lead to well-being. This gets support from a strong mind,

pure senses and a healthy body. We may say that these are the indispensable and

unshakable foundations on which lasting pleasures or happiness can be built up.

 

People try to secure this pleasure through eating in other ways. They also

imagine that they have tasted real pleasure through eating. Treating the tongue

spoilt by unnatural indulgence as a guide and with a weak mind, and bad senses

as the basis, forgetting the rules of growth and health, exceeding the

requirements, disregarding time, quality and quantity, they follow the ideal of

living for eating anything, anyhow. They imagine that they have enjoyed the real

pleasure born out of eating. This pleasure is born out of evil delusion, in its

nature pregnant with unhappiness for the future. Really this is not happiness at

all. This is only the sensation masquerading in the garb of real pleasure or

happiness born out of a titillation of the degenerate senses, goaded by an

enslaved mind. This is only a shadow of happiness, unreal, false, fleeting and

evil. Under no circumstances can this be called real pleasure or happiness.

 

Where do these habits resulting in this pleasure lead one to? Not to the joy of

life, not to longevity or healthy human conduct or activity. That can lead and

leads only to disease. Real pleasure or happiness is killed and out of its death

is born illness and disease. With the appearance of this false happiness

diseases grow and take their toll of death and suffering. Life is snuffed out.

 

Continued ….

Extract from the book “Sundara Yogic Therapy” by Yogacharya Sundaram, India.

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