It is nice to read the books of certain spiritual giants, it helps us to understand how much the attachment to falling things has in us. And if one clings to what falls, it takes the reverse path of asceticism. And by asceticism I do not intend to retreat to a mountain and live as a hermit. Ascend as there is. Standoci. With expensive gasoline, the moments when things don't seem to go any differently, the processing of events bigger than us.
Swami Vishnudevananda with "Karma and illness " elevates us a little, or at least gives us new perspectives on liberation. Born in Kerala in 1927 he entered the Sivananda Ashram in Rishikesh at the age of 18. In 1957 his teacher, Swami Sivananda, sent him to the West motivating the choice with a simple: "There are people who are waiting". This man, who came less physically in 1993, brought light on meditation, on Hatha and Raja Yoga, as well as planting significant seeds for world peace.
The lesson books, I call them. They have great answers in them because they are based on big questions. And the question: but does that disease come to me because I deserved it? To those who did not go through the mind?
Or if you listen to someone telling the story of a third person, how many times you hear "a tumor has come", "he / she left it and got sick". Phrases have always intrigued me so now that we are in full scientific materialism.
In this book we distinguish between secondary diseases - the pains afflicting the body - and primary diseases - mental diseases. What we want, the way we want it, can push us towards one or the other hypothesis . According to this form of spirituality, other factors take over: diet, life in unhealthy places, the company we choose, daytime and night-time rhythms upside down.
There is also talk of contributing factors regarding the contraction and distension of the orifices of the nadis in the joints and the interruption of the flow of the prana . Here I spend two words: prana is the energy that permeates everything, let's say so. When the body is agitated, the perception of things is altered. The inner prana of the human being moves from its smooth path and "staggers" into the body. In summary, it vibrates everywhere with uneven frequency.
The categories of primary illness for Swami Vishnudevananda
Let's go back to the primary disease. Swami Vishnudevananda divides it into two categories: samayana (ordinary) and sara (essential). And here we must have some patience and a capacity for abstraction. The former afflict the body, the latter afflict that particular body. The former occur by accident during the existence, the latter afflict men and women who are victims of rebirth .
The latter must be reduced to the first, its nature understood, meditated and then brought back to physical discomfort, to start the state of care through recitation of mantras, medicines, instruments of the medical art.
The primary disease, we have said, is closely linked to the functioning of mental processes. The mind must be purified. Only in this way does prana-vayu begin to circulate freely throughout the body.
The mind is purified with good actions, not with pleasant actions, there is a clear difference. Actions have intrinsic reactions and bonds with rebirths and further connections with the endless cycle of births and deaths. Karma is nothing but the collective totality of man's actions. By performing our actions without expecting anything in return, seeking self-awareness frees ourselves from this cycle of births and deaths. The bonds of karma gradually become loose as we move towards our essence. "Die to live. Kill this little" I "and achieve immortality."
There must be no fear of falling down, there really is no bass. We are talking about achieving a particular joy that breaks the chains of personality. If we do not have this contact with the Divine, getting close to someone who has tasted it will do us good.
"It doesn't matter what kind of body we wear, it really matters what our thoughts are." Yes, because next to the word karma and rests in the tension of the kind of actions we have produced and produce: purushartha, free will. We are not bound to karma; we carry out actions through free will and these have consequences also in the long term (over the very long period, given that the perspective includes the transmigration of souls).
Thus, those who have been guilty of hypocritical actions in the past and, disguised as good and virtuous, have actually occluded the freedom of others, will develop skin diseases and experience annoying itches if they do not change this attitude. There are many other examples: the profiteers and those who play with other people's money will face obesity and stomach cancer; those who pose as siddhas (sages) but in reality do nothing but cheat, confuse souls and take money, they will have indomitable sexual pleasures and will be prey to continuous and unattainable desire.
The examination of karmic diseases
Karmic is cancer, for example. And in some cultures it is linked to the consumption of meat (even science is realizing it). The pain of the beast during the killing remains present and alive in the flesh. Thoughts impress themselves in the atmosphere.
Other karmic diseases, reports the guru, are increasing in numbers, considering "the pollution of actions and thoughts". When an action is accomplished, nothing can stop the result, exactly as according to Newton's Law. The fruit of the actions we perform corresponds to the nature of the actions themselves . "He who has sown a mango cannot expect a banana." indicates the guru. And he explains in a sweet voice:
Many times we have been together in the past and then separated, and so it will be again in the future. Just as a pile of wheat taken from the barn always takes on new order and arrangement and new combinations, so too does the Jiva (individual soul) in the universe (Yoga Vasishta).
