Life is so simple, just be happy, have your food, take a good sleep, and keep your mind calm…

Life is so simple, just be happy, have your food, take a good sleep and keep your mind calm, that’s it!

In Tamil, there is a proverb often you can hear from old people in villages: உண்பதும், உறங்குவதுமாய் இரு( Unbathum uranguvathumai iru). The title of this story, exhibits the same meaning as it. Man was initially like that, by and by his passion built up, and what the sufferings we see either from individuals or of the nations, is only this. Once from this benchmark, he started deviating, there is an exponential growth of his sufferings. We lose our appetite and our rejuvenating rest, called sleep. Right appetite, followed by the intake of food would bring all kinds of nutrients to the body. This is what was proven by the scientists.

If vitamins and minerals are called balanced diets, why not we stop growing all crops and start producing only nutrients and start filling out the stomach with them. We keep ignoring the delicious taste and flavour that draws our salivary secretion, the moment we think of it.

We started exploring our boundary, extended it, by lifestyle, education, science, technology, achievements, simply trying to copy nature. While extending it, we forgot to eat and sleep on time, and beyond this food and sleep, we think there are many important things. Nature teaches so many lessons, then and there, but we resist learning them. Dr. Henry Lindlahr quoted in his book, Nature cure, “ Evil is not a punishment or an accident or error in mortal mind. It is a natural and inevitable result of violations of natural law. It is instructive and corrective in purpose. and will remain with us only as long as we need its salutary lessons”.

What we earn a maximum in this life, is this world. Man trying to become the richest man on this earth. We cannot forget the story of Alexander, the great who has won a major portion of the world, but his ego was not satisfied. Osho’s narration still rings in my years. The story everyone knows, but nothing wrong when retold. When he was about to cross the Indian border, his soldiers became sick, they were badly in need of rest. One of his ministers said, so as to meet a mystic, nearby, a Greek philosopher called Diogenes. By the time Diogenes was taking a sun bath. Alexander with great pride in him, met him and told that he was capable of giving anything he wished, but Diogenes simply rejected, but commanded to keep away, from sunlight as he was taking a sun bath. He questioned him further, 'What are you going to do after winning the whole world’. Alexander was stunned, he didn’t expect such a great question and said, “ Probably I will relax’. ‘That’s what I am doing now, how do you know that you will find time tomor-row to relax, I do not have even a six feet of land, you may not even return back to your home town’. It happened, after meeting him, Alexander was very much disturbed, on his way back to home he died and on the same day Diogenes also died.

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Yes, we keep postponing things, after building a house, after childrens marriage, after retirement, after seeing grand children, the list lengthens, but never ends.

Good health depends upon the calmness of the mind too

A calm mind is natural when it is not influenced by external disturbances and emotional instability. In our daily life unknowingly we do harm to others, physically and mentally which may come back in the right time. This nature corrects our personality only by the people around us, when we lack awareness about our own self. We may eat well, sleep well, and be very sincere and honest, but how we handle the people around us is very important. Even a slight disturbance will spoil the mind and we may lose the mental stability and calmness.

According to the acupuncture principles, emotions play a greater role in our life. The worries affect the stomach, the pride and ego affect our heart, our deep sorrow affects our lungs, the fear would affect the kidneys and the anger and irritation affect our liver.

The stomach and spleen associated with this earth, the heart and small intestine are linked with the fire element, the lungs are influenced by air element, the kidneys related to water element and the liver influenced by celestial objects or space. The five elements fire, Earth, Air, Water and space, of this universe, control our health and body indirectly. Thus emotional instability greatly affects our health. These emotional impacts are quite invisible too. When a person is kept in continuous fear, certainly his kidneys' function loses its strength. Maintenance of health also depends upon this world we live in. How do we keep or react in our world, when we disturb it, it reverts back at the right time.

The state of consciousness, mind and body are in balanced conditions, peace of mind and health bring everlasting joy. Awareness is the key to keeping them in balance.

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The very source of life gives awareness, impartially to all living beings, and realisation of the very life source, is bliss. Let the readers attain it, is my wish.

-கோ