Healthcare -Iv; Pujya Gurudev

Healthcare and Spirituality

=Pt.ShriRam Sharma Acharya

Self-restraint, which is an essential discipline and foundational component of spiritual practices, prevents downward flow of the currents of praña (life force) and gradually enhances vital energy, inner strength and willpower. A spiritually fit person is therefore not only free from stresses, depressions and all emotional and mental complications and protected from dissipation of his vital energy and hence from all infirmities, but he/she also becomes physically and mentally stronger, alert and dynamic.

Yoga exercises ( asanas and prañayamas ) are also parts of spiritual practices for sustenance of healthy and hearty life. Meditation is a higher-level yoga that not only calms and rejuvenates the mind, but also gradually awakens and prepares it for spiritual progress.

We must give ourselves a chance to experiment with the above stated spiritual practices. It will also help cultivating a positive temperament to see the good indwelling within and pervading around us.

(iii) Progress: Spirituality, because of its reach into the deeper depths of emotions, has intense impact on one’s aspirations and thought process. Spiritual attitude trains us to live harmoniously with our environment and to meet the challenges of life, at personal, familial, professional and social levels ^[3] . It thus elevates clarity and focus of mind and sharpens its incisive intellectual potentials.

Yoga, in its totality, is a practical science of spiritual progress. It makes you realize yourself and know and use your total potentials and powers. Once your mind is trained to recognize all this with the help of meditation and other higher-level yogic endeavors, all your selfish desires, ambitions, attachments, greed, envy, anger, negative instincts, etc loosen their grip and are gradually uprooted completely. This unfolds the beginning of absolute well-being.

Thanks GOD, Thanks Sadguru,

Shiv Sharma