Complete health is a symphony of both physical and mental well being. Considering physical health alone as one's only target is the highest form of ignorance, as physical health is very temporary. If the mind is not strong and healthy enough, physical health can not last long. In other words, the moment one comes across any stressful situation in life, if the mind is not strong enough to face it or go through it, all the physical health is lost. A healthy body alone, is incapable of providing you the will power, tolerance and clarity one needs, to carry through difficult times. These are the qualities of a healthy mind. This is where meditation comes into the picture.
It is meditation that equips you with a strong and sound mind - a process made readily available to man by Nature itself.
Swami Vishvas Ji explains: "Meditation is God's grace. It is to be shared, not to be sold. It can never be made a commercial commodity. Meditation is a subject of Vibrations, not bookish knowledge. In fact it can be attained very easily in the company of a Spiritual Master, an Awakened Soul."
There is a strange phenomenon instinctively tagged with every human being - that we are always at unrest. There's not even a single moment when we are not doing anything, either physically or mentally. For years, the mind has carried on a haphazard reign over our experiences and emotions, continually replacing happiness with stress, satisfaction with anxiety. This unnecessary and relentless thinking of the mind does not let us stay in the present moments, never lets us be content with what we have. In a day, myriads of thoughts cross our minds. Our mind requires regular cleansing that we hardly bother about.
Meditation is the inner cleansing of the mind that frees the mind of all dualities and negativities and that is true freedom.Meditation makes you free from all identifications of the mind very easily. It frees you from the negativities of the mind like stress, tensions, reactions, grudges, panic, anger, ego, fear, frustrations, feelings of irritability, moodiness, loneliness, isolation, depression, discontentment etc., and cultivates positive, beneficial and life-affirming mind-states such as patience, tolerance, perseverance, love, kindness, happiness, enhanced confidence and self esteem - enabling a deeper understanding and acceptance of self and others.
Yoga, daily walk and various other forms of exercises are quite useful to make the body fit for meditation - they help in keeping the body active so that one can meditate. But they are not meditation itself. They are simply a means to reach meditation. Yoga and all these exercises are futile and insignificant if they are not utilized for meditation. Why? Because, the body is merely a carrier to reach the end - it is not the end itself.
REMEMBER
Where a sound body loses, a sound mind wins. One must attain a sound mind through meditation. It is Meditation that brings the body, mind, emotions and spirit into complete harmony, resulting in TOTAL HEALTH.
