Always Live in Bliss

 

"Always live in bliss.  If difficulties confront you, drive them away.  In fact, suffering and troubles have no real existence.  Then why are you worrying?  Develop the attitude of detachment.  Then you will have no suffering and no worry.  Remind yourself, "I am a human being.  These difficulties and suffering do not belong to me."

If you develop real body detachment, you will not be affected by any affliction.  Physical ailments like stomach ache, headache or body pain are natural to the body.  Why should you worry about that which is natural?  You suffer because you develop too much attachment to the body.  

However, you have to take care of the body to the extent that you are not dependent on others.  You should realise your true nature.  Regulate your diet and habits.  Since you have too many desires, you have all the problems.  If you eat too much, you will have to suffer from indigestion.  Hence, control your craving for food.  Eat moderately and maintain good health.  That is what I advise the children always:

Get up early in the morning at the crowing of the cock,

Have a bath after your morning ablutions,

Wear a proper dress,

Eat properly and moderately,

Go to school and study diligently.

Earn a good name.

(Telugu Poem)

Develop good health, cultivate good habits, have good conduct and earn a good name.  If you have all these, you will not need anything else in life.  Do not run after medicines and doctors for your small problems.  If a medicine cures one disease, it will create another.  Many doctors have made the medical profession also a business.

What are you going to achieve if you lead a life full of worries?  Nothing at all!  Some doctors may exaggerate even your minor ailments as cancer and ulcer.  In such cases, even if you do not have such a disease, worry caused to you by the imaginary disease may lead to it.  The more you worry about it, the more would be your suffering.  Therefore, do not worry about your small physical problems.  If you lead a life of moderation and maintain a healthy lifestyle, you don't need to be at the mercy of doctors."

~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~

(Divine Discourse - 14.4.2006)