From IIM Ahmedabad To Happiness

Author(s): Vijay K Jain
Publisher: Vikalp Printers

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FROM IIM-AHMEDABAD TO HAPPINESS
away all obstructions and accumulation of effete matter, so highly dangerous on account of its suitability, as a breeding ground, for disease-bearing germs.
The relation between the soul and the physical body resembles, and may be likened to, that of a central spring and the fields to be irrigated by it. As regards health, the rule seems to be that as long as the central spring is overflowing with the fluid of life, and its waters reach the vital organs, health and youth are maintained. But when, owing to some cause or other, obstacles spring up which prevent the living waters from reaching the bodily cells, then such of them as reach no supply or an insufficient quantity of it, decline to contribute their share to the general wellbeing of the organism, setting up all sorts of disease and other forms of unhealthy complications in the system. Complete choking up of the central spring must mean death to the individual. In diseased conditions, such as paralysis, the subjective mind is unable to take control, wholly or partially, over the affected limbs, and the same thing happens in cases of atrophy, in which the affected part dries up, for want of a proper supply of the living waters of life. When a shock of a violent nature occurs in the experience of the individual, and the central spring is affected, there occurs a dislocation in one or more of the many points connected with the channels of communication, and the connection between the central organ and some vital part of the body is cut off. Now, if we can induce the subjective mind, which has full control over the cells of the body, to somehow re-establish the broken communication, the health might be restored.
The law of suggestion works here just as effectively as elsewhere; a suggestion has the potential to bring one to life and can also cause premature death in some cases. A life-long scepticism of the powers of the soul and a constant fear of death must produce their effect, sooner or later, on the body, so that
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