Health and Mind

Each one of us perceives the world in our own individual way.
Hence we experience health, disease and the purpose of disease individually.

The words ‘health’ and ‘heal’ originate from the word
‘whole’, which means ‘complete’, or to ‘integrate’. The subjective experience of
feeling whole from within is very individual and unique to each one of us. Thus
one’s experience of health (physical and emotional) may be radically different
from another’s understanding of the same.

In this era of modernisation and standardisation, society
offers us certain norms that define health and disease. These norms were
originally designed to assist us in our already inherent and intuitive
understanding of our own inner balance, of how it feels to be whole. In an
almost comic twist of events, we lost touch with our inner health-barometer and
we now find ourselves dependent on the judgment of a system outside us, when the
most powerful healer lies within. Health is basically a state of being, an ‘avastha’,
an experience of ease, joy and peace.

Disease is nothing but the loss of ease. When there is a lack
of ease in a part or in the mind, it is a clear indicator that there is
something that requires attention. Attention is different from judgment or
action. Those come much later. Let us give it that attention. Today the
perspective toward health is principally focussed on finding where and what is
diseased. The investigative thought process is directed towards all that can go
wrong. The time has come for us to shift the focus from disease to wellness;
from knowledge to wisdom . . .

Every event has the potential of the exact opposite. Peace
cannot be realised in an already existing state of peace. It can be realised
only when it is born out of a thirst created out of non-peace. Let us respect
that distress or disturbance for helping us realise peace.

Every illness brings with it a very specific personal
message. Once the disease is understood in the light of this learning, it ceases
to be a disease and becomes an opportunity to understand that part of oneself
that lies yet undiscovered deep in the ocean of the unconsciousness. The choice
to discovery is up to us. Once the discovery has been made, the disease has
completed its purpose and finds its own way out of the system. There is no
question of making it happen, but simply of letting it happen.

Had Columbus not lost his way, he would not have discovered
his destiny. Let us respect the apparent disharmony of things just so that the
experience of harmony can be more thrilling . . .

Everything here has a purpose — the day the purpose is
fulfilled, it dissolves !