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💡 Pillars of Existence**
0**. Initiation
1. Jajan
2. Jaajan
3. Ishtabhriti
4. Swastayani
5. Sadachar
🔥 Panchabarhi & Saptarchee ******
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In the scale of evolution the attainment of a human body is a singular fortune. Because, in the human life there opens up before us the golden opportunities for achieving infinite self-development according to our individual characteristics. For this presupposes the need for a healthy, strong, efficient, well-balanced ever-active physical system. So it is said, “It is our body that verily form the basis for following Dharma”.
We gain this body through parents. So, if a system of compatible marriage is not prevalent in the society no campaign for health can succeed. On the other hand if the marriage is correctly adjusted and if there is a deep, inseparable, existential active love between the pair combined with a proper go of life, then naturally their children are born with such a vigorous constitution and tremendous urge of life that they can survive in the struggle for existence by overcoming all hostile resistances. This inborn capacity endows us with endurance, power of resistance and the ability to adapt ourselves to newer and newer environmental conditions. This inborn original inheritance is the chief weapon in the battle of our life. Over and above this, proper nurture, protection and assistance are also surely needful. But if there is any deficiency in the inborn system, it cannot be fully compensated by external aids. The fundamental is that undivided unicentric attention to the Ideal or Superior is the basis of indomitable urge of life. Those who inherit this from parents are really very lucky. The essentials of eugenics lie herein.
But so far as others who are deprived of the advantage are concerned, all are to be made so that their love or inherent urge may be directed towards the source in a psychological way. So long with proper marriage and eugenics it should be an integral part of our planning for importance of health to pay attention to the cultivation of devotion to the source or in other words devotion to parents and above all to the Guru. It is also essential to implement maternity and child- welfare schemes in a scientific and planned way.
We should explain our point more explicitly. It is the will-power that operates behind the health or illness or death of people. And this will-power sprouts from love.
If someone’s love is centered and well-set on a personality who is an embodiment of universal love and active fulfiller of all, then he finds a perfect, ever-enduring meaningfulness and purpose of his life.
This universal propitious, divine purposefulness provides man an infinite thoughtfulness and an unending inspiration for actively serving the environment in a concentric way.
This tremendous spiritual urge kindles the latent vital power of man and induces him to approximate towards the infinite. Then his will and urge to live and cause others to live become irresistible. Oppositions cannot impede his progress. He goes onwards and forward with a tremendous pace to reach new horizons of life by surmounting the obstacles and making them subservient to his purpose. It is thus that his life, strength, valour, longevity, energy and efficiency are enhanced by leaps and bounds. This is the secret of augmentation of health.
The body is very intimately connected with the mind. In fact, it is difficult to think of one of them without thinking of the other. As if body and mind are the two sides of the same thing. Hence, as we shall have to be mindful about mental health for the sake of physical health, so also we shall have to be watchful about health of the body for ensuring mental health.
It is very difficult to maintain mental health properly. In our mind there are various complex passions and constantly there are lots of provocations and impulses from the external world. As a result of this, very frequently the passions flare up and render us perplexed. So if we behave as we like under the excitement of passions, it is sure to impair and confuse our physical organs, nervous systems and brain cells.
Again, if this excitement or impulses are suppressed and repressed forcibly due to fear of law or social chastisement, it also invariably leads to physical and mental diseases and distortions by creating an adverse reaction on the physical system. So for our physical health a proper and judicious adjustment, control and existential use of these things is needful.
[example inputs by Thakur]
God has not created the passions as so many foes to our existence, but He has created them as protectors, nurtures and servants of the being. Anyway, if they become unruly due to our inability to tackle them and if we seek to stifle them to get rid of their oppression, it is sure to spell disaster for us. And our physical and mental health becomes the first victim of this disaster.
On another side there is the unbearable excruciating agony caused by different kinds of mental shocks, opposition, pains, fears, anxieties, panics disquiet, obsessions, grudge, hatred indignation, doubts, sorrows, griefs, inferiority complex etc. Man cannot often give vent to all his feelings. He has to be a victim of ingratitude, slight and insult, tyranny, injustice, dishonour, loss, enmity, anti-propaganda, conspiracy and different kinds of frustration in secular and emotional life. In this way a huge mass of explosive bitterness, agitation, dissatisfaction, sensitiveness and grievance accumulates in the human heart.