What do you think about diseases, illnesses, ailments or maladies? One thing is clear that diseases, illnesses, ailments or maladies are common to all living-beings including plants, animals and human-beings. Plants, animals and human-beings suffer from various kinds of diseases, illnesses, ailments or maladies from time to time. According to our understanding, plants suffer only from physical or bodily illnesses and most of the time animals also suffer only from physical or bodily illnesses. But, sometimes there may be some rare instances that animals suffer from mental illnesses when they are fully caged and harassed or when they suffer from physical or bodily illnesses like rabies. But human-beings suffer from both physical or bodily illnesses and mental illnesses evenly. Human-beings use or apply different types of natural and artificial or synthesized drugs or medicines to treat or cure these physical or bodily and mental illnesses. Other than these drugs or medicines, human-beings use or apply methods like acupuncture, homeopathy and also traditional old methods like praying, charming, chanting incantations and Pirith (Pirith are Buddhist formulas or prayers addressed to gods, goddesses, deities, devils, universal powers or the triple gem in Buddhism), wearing charms or amulets, giving offerings to gods, doing Bali and Thovil (Bali and Thovil are traditional methods where charming, praying and giving offerings are applied for gods and devils), doing Bodhipuja (Bodhipuja is a Buddhist method of giving offerings to Bo-tree [Ficus religiosa]) and hypnotism in treating or curing these physical or bodily and mental illnesses. There may be various views and controversies about all these methods also including using or applying drugs or medicines. Studying and deciding how much these methods are successful and how they will be successful are up to you. But I have to say one thing that each of these methods should have some truth and success at least to some extent although they are not yet proven by science and science is still unable to prove them. However when we talk about all these physical or bodily and mental illnesses, one famous saying in medicine must always be kept in our minds. That famous saying is “Prevention is better than cure.” By having a healthy body, healthy mind and good spirit, you can prevent almost all of the physical or bodily and mental illnesses. Balance foods, mental and physical exercises, good habits, good care, spiritual activities and so on help in having a healthy body, healthy mind and good spirit. All of us know about these things. So, I am not going to talk much about these things. In recovering any mental or physical illness, the courage or determination that I will get recovered from or get rid of this mental or physical illness is the most important thing. This courage or determination itself generates mental energy and this mental energy strengthens the immune system of the body. This mental energy and immune system altogether promote or prompt or activate the body to produce or synthesize cells and chemicals those which help or act in treating or curing the illness. This is the normal condition regarding with physical or bodily illnesses. In treating or curing mental illnesses, above mentioned mental energy which is generated by the courage or determination itself alone promote or prompt or activate the body to produce or synthesize some chemicals those which help or act in recovery. So, when we are physically or mentally ill, the first thing that we should do is to encourage ourselves or determine to get recovered from or get rid of that illness by thinking that I must do so. Thus mental energy and immune system treat or cure some amount of the illness. The chemical energy that drugs or medicines contain treats or cures some amount or the rest of the illness. And also, spiritual energy has a great ability of treating or curing mental and physical or bodily illnesses whether you believe or not. The spiritual energy, if you used or applied, helps or acts in generating mental energy which helps or acts in treating or curing mental and physical illnesses according to above explained way in one way and the spiritual energy itself directly treats or cures mental and physical illnesses in the other way. So, if we use or apply chemical energy of drugs or medicines, mental energy and spiritual energy together, we will definitely be able to reach or gain the recovery quickly, successfully and properly. Most of us know that there is an aura around or at our human body. All of us have this aura around or at our human body by different levels or different amounts varying from individual to individual. We have heard that Buddha, Jesus Christ and some ancient prophets and monks had strong, powerful and visible auras. According to legends, gods, goddesses and deities have strong, powerful and visible auras. According to my understanding this aura is a composition or addition of the energy of body atoms and chiefly the energy of the mind or UEEC or mental energy. Here much of the composition or addition is completed by mental energy or the energy of the mind or UEEC. When this aura of anyone is strong, powerful and wide, most of the time he or she is free from both physical and mental illnesses. The chance to attack by physical and mental illnesses is very low when this aura is strong, powerful and wide. But when this aura of anyone is weak, powerless and narrow the chance to attack by physical and mental illnesses is high. That means he or she gets affected or attacked by physical and mental illnesses easily when his or her aura is weak, powerless and narrow. Therefore, by strengthening and widening this aura, we will be able to prevent or be free from almost all of physical or bodily and mental illnesses. To get a strong, powerful and wide aura, we must have a healthy body, healthy mind and good spirit. A healthy body is needed to maintain or bear a strong, powerful and wide aura and a healthy body also helps in gaining a healthy mind which composes or makes much of the aura and generates mental energy to strengthen and widen the aura and a healthy mind also helps in gaining, attracting or absorbing spiritual energy which strengthens and widens the aura, from the universe or the universal energy into the mind. A good spirit helps in gaining or maintaining a healthy body and healthy mind which act as mentioned above and a good spirit also helps in gaining, attracting or absorbing spiritual energy which strengthens and widens the aura, from the universe or the universal energy into the mind or UEEC. So, we must try to get a healthy body, healthy mind and good spirit. We earlier mentioned that balance foods, mental and physical exercises, good habits, good care, spiritual activities and so on help in having a healthy body, healthy mind and good spirit. We know that the cause for most of physical or bodily illnesses including infectious diseases which are caused by germs and illnesses or damages which are caused by any kind of accidents, is physical or bodily, chemical or genetic. But the cause for many physical or bodily illnesses is actually mental or the mind or UEEC causes for these physical illnesses. Mental stress, mental pressure, mental tension, mental shock, mental burden, mental un-satisfaction, mental dismay and frustration cause for most of the physical illnesses. Because of this mental stress, mental pressure, mental tension, mental shock, mental burden, mental un-satisfaction, mental dismay and frustration, different parts of the body tend to produce or secrete various cells and chemicals those which cause for many physical illnesses such as high or low blood pressure, heart attack, gastritis, constipation, kidney troubles, heart troubles and even cancers, diabetes and some other physical illnesses and sometimes different parts of the body tend to reduce or inhibit or stop the production or secretion of various cells and chemicals those which help in preventing some physical illnesses and in maintaining normal body conditions which finally cause for some physical illnesses. So, when we go deep in to the cause of a physical or bodily illness, it is finally mental and psychosomatic or the mind or UEEC causes for the illness. And also, we know that there are many kinds of mental illnesses from which many of human-beings suffer at present. The cause for some of these mental illnesses may be physical, chemical or genetic. But the main cause for majority of these mental illnesses is mental stress, mental pressure, mental tension, mental shock, mental burden, mental un-satisfaction, mental dismay or frustration. When we consider these things, one thing is clear that bad, wrong, negative and harmful mental conditions such as mental stress, mental pressure, mental tension, mental shock, mental burden, mental un-satisfaction, mental dismay, frustration and such other mental conditions those which are produced or generated or induced by the mind chiefly cause for most of physical illnesses and almost all of mental illnesses. When we maintain or hold or retain these bad, wrong, negative and harmful mental conditions such as mental stress, mental pressure, mental tension, mental shock, mental burden, mental un-satisfaction, mental dismay, frustration and such other mental conditions in our minds or allow them to prevail or reside in our minds for a long time, they give rise to or induce physical or bodily illnesses and mental illnesses as we explained before. What is the origin of these bad, wrong, negative and harmful mental conditions? Some might say that these bad, wrong, negative and harmful mental conditions originate from family, professional, social, financial, legal and political problems, social pressure, social competition, wars and lack of rest. Yes, these things cause for above mentioned bad, wrong, negative and harmful mental conditions externally. Under family, professional, social, financial, legal and political problems, social pressure, social competition, war violence and lack of rest, those bad, wrong, negative and harmful mental conditions emanate or originate from the mind or UEEC. The most important thing is that they emanate or originate from within you or from the mind itself and do not emanate or originate from outside. So, although family, professional, social, financial, legal and political problems, social pressure, social competition, war violence and lack of rest have some external influence or effect on the mind or UEEC in generating or inducing these bad, wrong, negative and harmful mental conditions, the origin of these bad, wrong, negative and harmful mental conditions is directly or straightly from bad, wrong, absurd, unpleasant, harmful, unholy and negative human qualities like mental hunger, anger, grudge, malice, wrath, animosity, resentment, hostility, malevolence, fire of hatred, thought of revenge, pride, arrogance, jealousy, envy, selfishness, cruelty, violence and impatience. These bad, wrong, absurd, unpleasant, harmful, unholy and negative human qualities directly give rise to or create above mentioned bad, wrong, negative and harmful mental conditions such as mental stress, mental pressure, mental tension, mental shock, mental burden, mental un-satisfaction, mental dismay, frustration and such other mental conditions. If you observe, analyze and penetrate all these things properly through your mind, you will be able to see, understand and perceive these things clearly. These bad, wrong, absurd, unpleasant, harmful, unholy and negative human qualities like mental hunger, anger, grudge, malice, wrath, animosity, resentment, hostility, malevolence, fire of hatred, thought of revenge, pride, arrogance, jealousy, envy, selfishness, cruelty, violence and impatience are produced or created by the mind or UEEC. Therefore, the sole creator of all and all these things is the mind or UEEC. Here the mind or UEEC produces or creates above mentioned bad, wrong, absurd, unpleasant, harmful, unholy and negative human qualities and they give rise to or create bad, wrong, negative and harmful mental conditions like mental stress, mental pressure, mental tension, mental shock, mental burden, mental un-satisfaction, mental dismay, frustration and such other mental conditions under the little influence of family, professional, social, financial, legal and political problems, social pressure, social competition, war violence and lack of rest. But, if you are free from above mentioned bad, wrong, absurd, unpleasant, harmful, unholy and negative human qualities like mental hunger, anger, grudge, malice, wrath, animosity, resentment, hostility, malevolence, fire of hatred, thought of revenge, pride, arrogance, jealousy, envy, selfishness, cruelty, violence and impatience, the influence or effect of family, professional, social, financial, legal and political problems, social pressure, social competition, war violence and lack of rest on creating or producing above mentioned bad, wrong, negative and harmful mental conditions such as mental stress, mental pressure, mental tension, mental shock, mental burden, mental un-satisfaction, mental dismay, frustration and such other mental conditions, is nil. As we talked before, those bad, wrong, absurd, unpleasant, harmful, unholy and negative human qualities give rise to or create these bad, wrong, negative and harmful mental conditions and these bad, wrong, negative and harmful mental conditions such as mental stress, mental pressure, mental tension, mental shock, mental burden, mental un-satisfaction, mental dismay, frustration and such other mental conditions cause for physical or bodily illnesses and mental illnesses as we explained earlier in one way. And also these bad, wrong, absurd, unpleasant, harmful, unholy and negative human qualities like mental hunger, anger, grudge, malice, wrath, animosity, resentment, hostility, malevolence, fire of hatred, thought of revenge, pride, arrogance, jealousy, envy, selfishness, cruelty, violence and impatience directly cause for physical or bodily illnesses in the other way and some bad, wrong, negative and harmful mental conditions those which emanate or originate because of these physical or bodily illnesses sometimes cause for mental illnesses too. Here we can think of following few examples. All of us know that we eat different kinds of foods endlessly because of the mental hunger to taste good or delicious tastes. Here we eat foods those which contain much fat or fat-rich foods and eating excess fat-rich foods causes obesity. Obesity causes symptoms or illnesses like high blood pressure, diabetes, osteo-arthritis and so on in return. We eat foods those which contain much cholesterol or cholesterol-rich foods and eating excess cholesterol-rich foods causes heart troubles including heart-attack. Thus, eating excess foods containing much sugar causes diabetes, eating excess foods containing much acid causes illnesses like gastritis and stomach-ulcers, eating excess foods containing much salt sometimes causes abnormal blood pressure, eating foods containing some artificial chemicals like colorings, essences, preservatives causes cancers, gastritis and eating some foods causes allergy. Here are only some of illnesses caused by eating different kinds of foods. There may be many other illnesses caused by eating various foods. And also, some of you smoke using tobacco because of the mental hunger to get the feeling of stimulation which is induced by the chemicals of tobacco on the nervous system. This smoking causes lung-cancers, heart troubles including heart-attack, some other ailments in lungs and so on. Some of you take liquor because of the mental hunger to get the feeling of stimulation which is induced by alcohol on the nervous system. This taking liquor causes cirrhosis, liver-cancers, heart-troubles, various ailments in brain and nervous system, mental illnesses and so on. Only a few of some of human-beings take narcotic drugs like cannabis, heroin, marijuana, opium and so on because of the mental hunger as I explained above. These takings of narcotic drugs cause various illnesses in the body and specially causes for mental illnesses. Some of human-beings look for opposite sex mates as extra partners except his fiancée, her fiancé or his or her spouse for sexual relationships because of the mental hunger to feel or sense smooth or favorable touches or sensations. This looking for extra partners ends up with various kinds of venereal diseases or sexually transmitted diseases, especially with the fatal, incurable AIDS. I am not going to tell much about these things because all of us have certain understanding of all these things. You saw the long distance that mental hunger for various things went and how mental hunger alone causes for various physical or bodily and mental illnesses to some extent. If you observe more, you will be able to see much more. Likewise, these bad, wrong, absurd, unpleasant, harmful, unholy and negative human qualities like mental hunger, anger, grudge, malice, wrath, animosity, resentment, hostility, malevolence, fire of hatred, thought of revenge, pride, arrogance, jealousy, envy, selfishness, cruelty, violence and impatience directly cause for or induce disputes, quarrels, fights, battles and wars among human-beings where human-beings, human-beings attack, kill, slaughter and destroy themselves by using dangerous weapons like draggers, knives, swords, clubs, fire-arms, bombs, mortars, artilleries, missiles and mass-destructive weapons like chemical weapons, biological weapons and nuclear weapons. These disputes, quarrels, fights, battles and wars directly or indirectly cause for many physical or bodily illnesses including physical or bodily damages and mental illnesses as we talked before. The by-products of these bad, wrong, absurd, unpleasant, harmful, unholy and negative human qualities like fear and suspicion also cause for such disputes, quarrels, fights, battles and wars which later cause for physical and mental illnesses as we talked before. And also by-product of these bad, wrong, absurd, unpleasant, harmful, unholy and negative human qualities like competition causes for motor-accidents or road accidents which later cause for physical and mental illnesses. Thus, if you go deep into the bottom of most of physical or mental illnesses, you will find that the main or basic cause for these illnesses is due to these bad, wrong, absurd, unpleasant, harmful, unholy and negative human qualities like mental hunger, anger, grudge, malice, wrath, animosity, resentment, hostility, malevolence, fire of hatred, thought of revenge, pride, arrogance, jealousy, envy, selfishness, cruelty, violence and impatience. So, I am not going to talk any further on this. When we consider about physical or mental illnesses, one thing that we see is that some of the people look at physical or mental patients with disgust, contempt or ridicule. That is very, very wrong. All of these physical or mental illnesses are common to all human-beings. It may be that someone suffers from one of any of physical or mental illnesses today and I or you may suffer from that same illness tomorrow. Specially most of people look at patients who suffer from sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS, tuberculosis, elephantiasis, epilepsy, leprosy, mental illnesses, burning-wounds and so on with a severe disgust, contempt or ridicule. But those same people may suffer from those illnesses tomorrow. So, we must be used to look at those patients justly and fairly with kind, merciful hearts. The worst thing that I have seen is mental patients are ridiculed, mocked jeered, annoyed, stoned and harassed by normal people with balanced minds. Regarding with this I have to say two things. One is that if the mind of that mental patient is not ill, he or she doesn’t behave like that and that mental illness also is natural like other physical illnesses. The other thing that I have to say is that you whoever you are, your close relation or your best friend may suffer from that same mental illness tomorrow. That may happen automatically at any time. If that happens, you, your close relation or your best friend may also behave like that. Therefore, please treat all mental patients with a tender, kind heart. The worst word that I have heard is madman or madwoman. There must not those words be in the vocabulary. The words madman and madwoman are meaningless and unfair. The man or woman who suffers from mental illnesses is a mental patient and not a madman or a madwoman. So, average people in the society must be fair, genuine and gentle more than above and to address mental patients as mental patients or mentally retarded persons themselves. One of the most important and valuable acts or activities in the humanity is to treat or attend or cherish or nurse the sick-people or patients, both mental and physical patients. All of us, human-beings must be used to attend or cherish or nurse mental or physical patients with patient, tender, kind, merciful and holy hearts and physical treatments whenever, wherever we find a mental or physical patient. We should clean patients and their cloths, beds and utensils, feed them with good, nutritious foods and drinks, give them medicines and other prescribed treatments, help them to move and walk if it is necessary, remove their urine and excrements if it is necessary, talk kindly and tenderly and help through all other ways whoever the patient is. Cherishing or nursing the sick-people or patients is a meritorious activity. Here we should cherish or nurse the sick or patient without expecting or hoping something or anything in return. Krishna (Hinduism), Buddha (Buddhism), Jesus Christ (Catholicism and Christianity) and Prophet Mohammed (Islam) have preached the importance and value of cherishing or nursing sick-people or patients and all of them had cherished, nursed, treated and cured physical and mental patients themselves throughout their lives. Therefore, we must follow their way in this case. Earlier we discussed that to strengthen and widen the aura and to cure physical and mental illnesses, it is necessary to gain, attract or to absorb spiritual energy from the universe or the universal energy. The ways to gain, attract or to absorb spiritual energy from the universe or the universal energy are explained and clarified in holy Bible (the holy book of Catholicism or Christianity), holy Qur’an (the holy book of Islam), holy Bhagawadgitha (the holy book of Hinduism) or holy ancient Hindu text books and holy Thripitakaya (the holy book set of Buddhism) or other holy Buddhist text books. And also, we discussed that the main, basic and deep causes for almost all of physical or bodily and mental illnesses are finally bad, wrong, absurd, unpleasant, harmful, unholy and negative human qualities like mental hunger, anger, grudge, malice, wrath, animosity, resentment, hostility, malevolence, fire of hatred, thought of revenge, pride, arrogance, jealousy, envy, selfishness, cruelty, violence and impatience. The ways to reduce, inhibit, neutralize, stop, nullify and eradicate these bad, wrong, absurd, unpleasant, harmful, unholy and negative human qualities are explained and clarified in holy Bible, holy Qur’an, holy Bhagawadgitha or holy ancient Hindu text books and holy Thripitakaya or other holy Buddhist text books. Therefore, to do both of above things we have to turn towards holy Bible, holy Qur’an, holy Bhagawadgitha or holy ancient Hindu text books and holy Thripitakaya or other holy Buddhist text books. Here, Catholics and Christians have to turn towards holy Bible, Muslims have to turn towards holy Qur’an, Hindus have to turn towards holy Bhagawadgitha and other holy ancient Hindu text books and Buddhists have to turn towards holy Thripitakaya and other holy Buddhist text books. But, if there is one who has a free, independent and broad mind, he or she can turn towards holy Bible, holy Qur’an, holy Bhagawadgitha and other holy ancient Hindu text books and holy Thripitakaya and other holy Buddhist text books evenly and appropriately. So, treatments or remedies for almost all of physical or bodily and mental illnesses, are finally found in holy Bible, holy Qur’an, holy Bhagawadgitha and other holy ancient Hindu text books and holy Thripitakaya and other holy Buddhist text books. Finally, I wish all of you a healthy body and a sound mind without any physical or bodily and mental illness.
