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Illness comes suddenly and disturbs a lot of planning done for the future. You may have planned your holiday for a special trip, but land up spending them lying in the bed. Money reserved for celebrating a special event or for a special purpose may be drained down in medical expenses. Planning made for spending time for spiritual practice may have to be spent relaxing. Things that are planned cannot be accomplished and many things that we could never imagine occur for no apparent reason. The feeling of uncertainty of circumstances and experience of the unforeseen are enabled by illness which is a blessing.
The mind is forever wavering, but is the body also any stable ? The body is sometimes at the window and sometimes at the door, sometimes in the bed and sometimes in the car, sometimes in the house and sometimes in the shop, sometimes in the city and sometimes abroad .......but during an illness a person's entire universe revolves around his bed. In the scriptures, there is a reference to a penance called sanlinata. A yogic posture where the mind, body and soul are all still and where a person accommodates himself in a small space without making any movement is sanlinata. The opportunity to the body, which is used to roaming about continuously, to remain still at one place, is provided by illness which is a blessing.
There are times when we consider our family members to be selfish and self-centered. You think as if these were relatives
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