MORE ABOUT HEALTH
To define health is as difficult as
to maintain it. It is deplorable that maintenance of health has become a
problem all over the world. To provide health facilities has become a major
responsibility of the State. In India a particular political party has opened
even street clinics which shows the magnitude of illness among the
citizens. In such a condition, everybody
has his own definition of health.
According to Hazrat Inayat Khan, Indian
Professor of musicology and Sufism as well as a poet philosopher (1882-1927) people nowadays
have lost the conception of normal health, for the standard of normal health is
below the real conception of health.
To be healthy is not only to be muscular: to be really
healthy is to be able to enjoy and appreciate life fully. To be healthy means
to be thoughtful. The one who can feel deeply shows the sign of health. It is
not surprising if a material person becomes ill, nor is it amazing if a
spiritual person is unwell. The former becomes ill because he has lost his
rhythm , the latter because he could not keep to a rhythm which is not his own.
The learned Professor adds: whether
one is spiritual or material , one has to live in the midst of the world , and
so perforce one shares the conditions of everyone, both far and near; and one is
subjected to the influences all around, whether they are desirable or not.
Since street clinics, dispensaries,
small or big hospitals can give only medicines for symptomatic conditions of
health, the best a citizen can do is to keep a careful watch against all that
causes irregulariy, inharmony, and disorder, to be resigned to all one has to
pass through, and to be courageous in order to overcome all that keeps back
from health and perfection.
Finally: a Sufi holds that the perfection of
life lies in perfecting himself not only spiritually, but in all the various
aspects of life.
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G.R.Kanwal
2nd September 2023
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