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June 1999: What is Health?
The word health traces its roots to the words heal, hale and finally whole. Good health means to be whole. Wholeness encompasses both the body and the mind. Thus, the common definition of health, which is an absence of disease, is only a partial definition of wholeness. Wholeness signifies both absence of the negative as well as presence of the positive. The experience of this wholeness emanates from harmony, peace and reverence for life. The source of happiness comes from our external and internal environments. External peace is the result of enriched social surroundings and sincere communication, while internal harmony comes purely from within. But it is meditation that puts us in touch with ourselves and helps us to realize our inner power and our inner strength to bring about harmony, peace, and wholeness. With the awareness of meditation, one can get rid of unhealthy and cloudy inner and outer visions.
In meditation as we become aware of our intrinsic qualities, we start to experience life in new ways with peace, creativity, beauty and poise. And these have the power to bring health as well as the power to cure ourselves. All we have to do is get in touch with our inner Self and realize it through meditation.
Anekantavada
Observing our nonviolent thoughts during meditation increases our perception of peace and love, paving the way to maintain equanimity in daily life, even if others disagree with us. To resist violence, we practice the principles of Anekantavada: relativity of thinking: we consider that each person, each individual, each object, each point of view has multiple dimensions. When we are open to accept the differences, we remain positive and nonviolent to others.
These differences are an outcome of several factors and assume different forms. Our perceptions are selective and limited, depending upon our conditioning. We all have an origin: a well-defined physical and ethnic characteristic, and a chemical makeup. We grow in a set of socio-cultural environments and acquire our belief and habit system. All these make us unique and different from each other. Even identical twins are different.
116 - Journey to Enlightenment
| SR No. | 006996 |
| Book Title | Journey to Enlightenment Part 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Chitrabhanu, Chetana Catherine Florida, Nirmala Hanke, Raksha Penni Helsene |
| Publisher | Create Space |
| Publication Year | 2008 |
| Total Pages | 142 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 4 MB |