Awakening

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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This is the most important thing." If anyone of the strings of the Veena is loose, it cannot produce sounds that are necessary for good music. In the same manner, if the body is suffering from any disease, we cannot be happy. One may have a palatial bungalow; one may have a number of relatives and friends; one may have a wife of noble character; one may have obedient children; one may possess all modern comforts and luxuries ; one may have plenty of excellent aristocratic food, but if one also has 104° C of fever, what happens ? He cannot taste or enjoy anything. That is why all thinkers have emphasized the importance of bodily health. Health is more valuable than crores of rupees.
Mental health is more essential than physical health, because if the mind is not healthy, the body cannot be healthy.
The mind reflects; the mind thinks and makes the body move and act. The body which is made up of the five basic elements i. e., Prithvi (earth), Ap (water), Thejas (fire), Vayuh (air) and Akasha (Vacuum) carries out the dictates of the mind. If the mind is unhappy, the body also will be unhealthy. Many years ago, Santh Tukaram said :
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