Mind is more Important than Medicine

Swami Nirmalananda Giri Maharaj

AKSHARA KASHAYAM, Karuna Foundation

If you want no illness the most important thing is that the condition of the mind should improve. Kindness, love, and motherliness should fill your heart. 

Ayurveda identifies ten sins. All these ten should be avoided. They are: 

1. Himsa
2. Stheyam
3. Anyatha Kamam
4. Paisunam
5. Parusham
6. Anrtham
7. Sambhinnalapam
8. Vyapadam
9. Abhidhya
10. Drgviparyayam

Ahimsa which is the opposite of Himsa, means never trouble anyone, in your thoughts, words or deeds. 

Astheyam which is the opposite of Stheyam means never desire anything that belongs to others. 

Never indulge in sex perversions or Anyatha Kamam.

Next is Paisunam: finding fault with others. Don’t do that. Parusham Don’t speak rudely. At home and at work, speak politely pleasingly and softly. Under no condition should you leave dignified language. Because we hear it first before someone else hears. And at that time too many hormones are produced. So when you take medicines you should speak very politely. 

Anrtham. Do not exaggerate. You have to avoid that completely. 

Do not speak in a manner that might make others quarrel. There are some people like that. Whenever they speak something, it ends up in a quarrel: in the office or at home or in the neighbourhood. They will always be sick. This is sambhinnalapam

Wanting or wishing others to get into trouble is ‘Vyapadam’. So do not nurture such thoughts. 

Abhidhya. Not having faith in truth and dharma (righteousness).These days, people say it doesn’t work. That is not correct. You should believe in truth and dharma. 

Drk viparyayam –is very important. You should always think positively. You should not think negatively. You become sick. Then you should think that it will be cured, surely be cured. If such thinking is not there, your condition will become worse. If you continue to think that your condition is going to worsen, that your illness will not go, then there is no use taking all the medicines. On the contrary you hear from the doctor that you will be cured and you hear the same from your relatives and friends and then you also strongly believe that you will be cured – you will surely be cured. You may not even need medicines from here. With the medicines you have already taken, you will be cured. 

I am saying this truthfully. Mind is more important than medicine. Diseases cannot touch people with pure mind. Your illness has not been cured not due to the ineffectiveness of the medicine. Those medicines were all right. But the doctor fooled you by saying you will not be cured. After that, the treatment is of no use. That is why; finally you had to come here.