The real blessing of being healthy is to get the blessings of being ever healthy. What is health? For physical health, we go to the doctor for a check-up and for help. But can the doctors real-ly diagnose the disease? Do the doctors diagnose the disease or do the machines do it? Whenever you go to the doctor, even if it is for a blood test, the doctors give diagnoses according to the results on the machines. So, the machine is diagnosing ‘the machine’ (the physical body). The machine does not diagnose the sickness of the person; the machine diagnoses matter.
We recognise that the cause of sickness is the weakness of the soul. Just like any effect of matter, when we do not follow the laws of nature, immediately the body gets affected. If we are in cold weather and are not following the laws of nature, our bodies will be affected. If we are careful and respect the laws of nature, we are protected. So, in the same way, when we are respecting the laws of spirituality, the soul remains healthy. According to the WHO, there is an increasing number of psychosomatic diseases. The symptoms come from the soul; they come from the mind. Psychology tries to provide the right awareness for this in order for patients to regain health.
The cure of the mind is possible with three medications to be taken daily:
1. Take the physical medicine — whichever type of medication suits the body. This could be via traditional medicine, or Ayurveda, homoeopathy or naturopathy. The body is a gift made up of the five elements, so harmony is needed between the five elements that make up the physical body.
2. The second medicine is having pure thoughts and good wishes, for the self and the healing of the self, and especially to create harmony in all our relationships. These good wishes and pure feelings create trust, self-respect and loving and honest respect for others, including the food and drink we consume throughout the day.
3. The most powerful medication is meditation. Meditation empowers the mind through having a sweet conversation with the self and the Supreme Being, the Supreme Soul. This conversation is at the heart of Rajyoga. Yoga power enables souls to regain their awareness of peace, love, and inner spiritual joy which stabilises the mind and brings inner and outer harmony.
Remember, in essence, I am a soul, the child of God. I am the child of the Almighty Authority. I am the child of the Purifier. The truth is, the soul is sick, and not the body. But because the soul becomes sick, the body also becomes sick. This is why it is important to heal the soul and the body, and not that because the soul is sick, I only take care of the soul. No. The body is also affected. So, both, the driver, the soul, and the car, the body, have to be looked after carefully.
B.K. Sudesh is the Director of the Brahma Kumaris’ services in Europe.