364 From: girinath <girinath_cbe@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:13am
Subject: Part - II . Diseases & Their Prevention girinath_cbe
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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 mans 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 natures 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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