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'If health is lost, everything is lost?'
Answer: No, because lost health can be regained in the subsequent births. Life-long diseases like hypertension and diabetes experienced during this life are not carried forward to the next. When your soul leaves your body, even diseases are left behind and the soul regains its health back. This is why, 'If health is lost, not everything is losť. It is said, ‘something is losť.
There is nothing to be lost by losing money and something to be lost by losing health. Therefore one can understand that health is more important than wealth.
The Gujarati proverb “Pahelun sukh te jate narya’ (meaning = The foremost happiness in life is to have a healthy body) puts physical well-being on a higher pedestal than the happiness derived out of wealth. It is true that one needs money to fill one's stomach. However, how can one consider doing any business, which helps amass wealth, but at the same time leads to the loss of hunger, thirst or sleep? So many people lead restless jet set lives where they breakfast in Mumbai, lunch in Lucknow and dine in New Delhi. In today's money-crazy world, this person may spend money freely, he may be a big industrialist and be given a lot of respect but Vyas Muni, in an aphorism, has called such a world traveller a fool and likened him to a person who has to earn his daily bread by working for someone.
Also, why should one plunge into the share market blindly where sometimes even a single knock-over can give a terrible blow from which it may be impossible to recover for life?
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