DISEASE - CURE (Cure Your Self - 6)

 Emotion, Truth, Disease.

(Excerpts from book “Cure Yourself”, author Swami Vijnananand, S.V.)

All unequal members of the human race share equal knowledge of Truth. Allotment of Truth is selfsame. For this purpose truth known to every member of society is replete. A cup of water to the brim need not envy an overflowing tank. Since, even if what is offered to the cup has no room where it can accommodate it.

Why is untruth voted for? A liar necessarily clings to his version for a lap of luxury, for pleasing some emotion or the other.

Try to place this in terms of logic and mathematics:

        In truth there is no emotional outburst.

        Untruths cause emotions.

        Emotions cause disease (unease).

        Therefore, Untruths cause un-ease (disease).

        Therefore, Truth causes ease.

Plenty of instances already furnished, establish relation between emotion and disease. 

One more quote is added only for ready reference. "The effect of emotions on the adrenals is to produce higher blood pressure which favors the development of arteriosclerosis and other diseases of circulatory system. The thyroid is so much affected by mental depression that this emotion is mentioned by scientists as one of the causes of myxoedema. The pituitary body is also affected by emotions. Prof. Pel and others have noted cases of acromegaly after violent emotion. Dr. Sajous has often pointed out this gland as the central organ upon which all strong emotions react. The liver and kidneys are much affected by emotions. Jaundice indicates the disturbance of the former whereas, according to Clifford Albutt, many cases of interstitial nephritis can be traced to mental emotions."

"An objective truth as subjectively known" as probable cause of cure, ranks high and assumes top eminence in the eyes of respectable scientists.

1.   Lister declares, "Next to the promulgation of Truth, the best thing I can conceive that a man can do is the public recantation of an error."

2.   While replying a question reproduced in Part 14 of "Outline of Modern Belief" Sir James Jeans says, "I think it possible that the existence of suffering can be accounted for along the usual ethical lines."

3.   Alexis Carrel, the Nobel-prize winner asserts, "No one can learn to distinguish right from wrong, and beauty from vulgarity by taking a course of lectures. Morality, art, and religion are not taught like grammar, mathematics, and history. To feel and to know are two profoundly different mental states."

Earlier, accentuating the correlation between emotion and ailment, he viewed, "Thus envy, hate, fear, when these sentiments are habitual, are capable of starting organic changes and genuine diseases. Moral suffering profoundly disturbs health. Businessmen who do not know how to fight worry die young. The old clinicians thought that protracted sorrows and constant anxiety prepare the way for the development of cancer. Emotions induce, in especially sensitive individuals, striking modifications of the tissues and humours.

The French expression 'se faire du mauvais sang' is literally true. Thought can generate organic lesions. The instability of modern life, the ceaseless agitation, and the lack of security create states of consciousness which bring about nervous and organic disorders of the stomach and of the intestines, defective nutrition and passage of intestinal microbes into the circulatory apparatus. Colitis and the accompanying infections of the kidneys and of the bladder are the remote results of mental and moral unbalance. Such diseases are almost unknown in social groups where life is simpler and not so agitated, where anxiety is less constant. In a like manner, those who keep the peace of their inner self in the midst of the tumult of the modern city are immune from nervous and organic disorders."

The depressing anxiety of the man is: if he leaves untruth, nothing in life survives. This bewildering anxiety reflects paradox of life, when openly we all talk of sanctity. The celebrated scientist Sir Arthur Eddington apologizes, "One begins to fear that after all our faults have been detected and removed there will not be any of us left." This notion prevails in spite of the fact that, without exception, all principal schools of philosophy and religion preach truth as ne plus ultra value of life, existence of purified soul after death and so on.

If my mind is non-matter, and if nothing can be destroyed from this universe according to the law of conservation of energy, "I" cannot die. Purification of my mind during the life-span with the help of truth enhances my chances of perpetually living in disease-free state.

Disease can touch only the impure mind. The more unsullied it becomes, the more disease-free state do I reach by the pure laws of science, mathematics and logic. There should be no apprehension of the demon of death.

(To be continued)

Vijay R. Joshi,

DISEASE - CURE (Cure without Medicine - 5)

Medicine and Mechanics

(Excerpts from book “Cure without Medicine”)

1.  The body is made of cells. The mind and in turn emotions are present in every cell of the body. The perfect co-ordination and unity of ‘self’ is shared and maintained by each cell. Each cell shares these living emotional property. Hence our proposition laid down earlier stands proved collectively (at body of the organism) and individually (at each cell in the body of the organism).

2.  If pulse beats were the only standard, then a hard working laborer would be the victims of the worse disease (since while doing the labor, the pulse beats variation is much more than doing the table work involving intelligence).

3. Pulse is not the only measure

But it may be noted that pulse is not the only measure. When the intellectuals pulse is accelerated, the brain potentials (electric changes) are more rapid in his case. The laborer, comparatively, has a small change in the brain potential. In the case of intellectual, the rate of change of brain potential is comparatively higher. Indeed, here the consideration of minute volume of heart crops up along with the pulse rate but we shall ignore it here to make understanding simple. Pulse beat if compared to prick of a match stick, then brain potential would be equivalent to pin-prick. The sharper the worse.

These are simplified statements. Indeed brain potential bear different contexts.

4. Role of Medicine

We now consider the mode of action of medicine on the condition of disease itself.

Emotions are spread throughout body.

On the showing of science itself, the human body is an integrated whole. One cannot assert that emotion is in one part of the body and a boil on the foot is at another altogether distinct part of the body, unconnected with the lame of emotion. Every part of the body and emotion is jointly responsible for all actions of commission and omission. All action in the body collectively face the reaction under the laws of science.

5. Illustration (Simplified) – to see the effect of medicine on the body.

5.1 Consider the case of a person who has become angry on six different occasions, say for 10 minutes on each occasion.

Assume his normal pulse rate is 72/minute.

When angry, it goes to 78/minute

PV (action)/minute is 6 stroke/minute

Total action produced in 60 minutes = 60 x 6 = 360 PV strokes

Therefore, the stored potential energy in the body = 360 strokes of action

5.2 Now assume that this potential energy (360 strokes) produces 60 minutes of headache. During the period of headache, the pulse will beat say at 78/minute. (This means, on the basis of discussion earlier, through the pain-emotions of headache, the body will react on the mind at the rate of six strokes per minute, i.e. reaction of 60 minutes x 6 strokes/minute = 360 strokes of reaction) Here we see the emotion (anger) has been fully compensated by headache.

5.3 But in practice, the person would take a pill to stop his headache. Say after 40 minutes (i.e. he suffered from the headache for some time and later his pain stopped due to the medicine he consumed), i.e. 20 minutes x 6 strokes/minute = 120 strokes of headache are saved by medicine.

5.4 But since these 120 strokes cannot be abolished, they are not destroyed or totally avoided, but merely withheld. The man gets relief from headache. Let us assume that the joy of relief the person enjoys for 10 minutes at the strokes of action of 6 strokes/minute. Hence 6 x 10 = 60 strokes the person has added to the potential quota of reaction (to be suffered sometime later).

5.5 Medicine itself creates some action on the body. It is not always possible to ascertain correctly in each case how much action a particular drug is likely to add to the body. Hypothetically in this case it is assumed that ¼ pill would have been sufficient to stop the headache. But since, one full pill was consumed ¾ pill was consumed in excess of the requirement. This excess medicine will also have strength to create action in the body.

We may say – 120 strokes saved by taking medicine

                   60 strokes created by Joy of relief

                   360 strokes created by unwanted dose of medicine (action)

                   540 Total strokes

Thus, the picture:

540 strokes – potential stored for future pain in spite of suffering headache for 40 minutes (40x6 = 240 strokes).

(In practice, the reaction thus stored because of joy or because of additional medicine may not be exactly as above. But then all that we are concerned with is that it is more than the original quota of reaction, the man should have been subjected to because of the headache).

5.6 Consider this again.

In the event the headache occurs again the next day, to give the individual the above 540 strokes. He does not wait even 40 minutes before taking medicine. He takes the medicine (pill) just within 5 minutes the headache starts. On each such occasion are added minimum of about 400 strokes. During three years, say 1000 days @ the above rate the body of the person has stored 1000x400 = 400,000 reaction strokes.

By taking medicine, the person has prohibited the body to react to the headache (suffering). So this large amount of reaction is directed to, say heart, in place of head. So the person gets a heart attack.

6. Alexis Carrel

Wrote in his famous book ‘Man the Unknown’ about the potential capacity of the body to retain, yet adjust itself. “Medicine is far from having decreased human sufferings as much as it endeavors to make us believe. Indeed the number of deaths from infection diseases has greatly diminished. But we still must die, and we die in a much larger proportion from degenerative diseases. The years of life which we have gained by the suppression of diseases (like diphtheria, small pox, typhoid fever, etc.) are paid for by the long sufferings and the lingering deaths caused by chronic affections and especially by cancer, diabetes and heart diseases.”

7 The route may be complicated, the analysis complex – yet the fundamental remains unaffected totally. They are identical in case of every disease. By any logic, there cannot be any other conclusion.

It is quite well-known that while the ‘Pill’ stops the headache, it simultaneously also acts on the nervous system. Where other medicines are concerned, they act either on the nervous system or on some other part of the body. There is no provision for the medicine to unconditionally be thrown out of body. On the contrary, the medicine becoming one with the body, metabolism again produces its effect. So all that person achieves by taking medicine is to delay the action of disease or to change its original nature ultimately to be all the worse for treatment.

8. Let me make it clear. In case you ask me whether we should not then take medicines at all?

Leaving details for later discussion, I emphasis that we should at least add to the medicine, appreciation of these findings and ‘Peace of Mind’ resulting therefrom (from this knowledge).

Summary

When emotion (cause) turns itself into disease (effect), the process is subtle (Fine and difficult to understand). Cause-Effect, Action-Reaction take place either immediately or (through medicine if can be) differed. In the first alternative, the manifestation of effect is immediately, or optionally (by postponement by medicine), it can be stored as ‘potential energy’. This is again purely as per another concept of physics).

(To be continued..)

Vijay R. Joshi

DISEASE - CURE (Death of Disease - 6)

Visible Expression of Mind (Emotions)

(Excerpts from Death of Disease chapter 14).

1.   ‘Emotions’ is visible expression of mind.

Every moment, the mind of a person (which is invisible) expresses itself through his emotions. Even a blind man can visualize the mind of the person standing opposite and draw conclusions as regards the feeling of the anger, just from the penetrating words being uttered. A deaf person merely looks at his neighbor and even then one look enables him to see the greed of the person reflected from his eyes. The reader reads a book and from the weight and feel of the words reads the emotions of the author, though he might have never seen him. A man cannot remain without emotions. An individual rests in chair and his face may look calm, but in the minds emotionally he might be meeting his love, a thousand miles away.

2. Six major emotions cause outward expression of Mind.

(a) Envy, (b) Greed, (c) Ego, (d) Anger, (e) Sex, (f) Affection. One may be permitted to add or to subtract from this list. As there are any number of shades of emotions from person to person. Yet, for the present purpose, our main emphasis lies on the aspect of expression of mind. Thus the variation of details in terms of the description of emotions hardly matter. There is not moment in the conscious life when we don't be under the effect of the swing of any emotion. We cannot conceive a moment without thought and thought run only parallel to emotion.

3. Chemically our body changes every day.

As Donald Cooley expresses in the book, 'The Science Book of Wonder Drugs', "Biochemically, your body is never exactly the same from one split second to another" (125 crores cells change/second). Then what remains constant in man throughout his life? It is the individual made (personality) that prevails with regards to proportion of emotions that go to make his mind. This remains so, till mind itself in its natural process plans to change it.

The supremacy or otherwise of one emotion over the other, and their relative effective force differs from case to case. The difference in emotional set-up makes persons distinct individuality. Therefore, given the same set of circumstances, various person act differently. Thus, same situation may create stress for somebody, for other it may not disturb at all.

Every 'disease' therefore rests on some emotional basis which could be immediate or distant. The link between emotions and disease is known to doctors. They do know that blood pressure is connected with anger. Their only difficulty is that every angry person may not go sick (with B.P.).

a)                     Sickness should be attributed to a specific proportion of other emotions in the person concerned.

b)                    A disorder in the body does not spring up spontaneously. Nature gives a man long rope before the person is finally hanged or intermittently disabled by any disease.

Every (impact of) emotion must be marking an ascending line on the graph of our physical condition. Unfortunately, an attack of disease remains latent till it assumes proportion of big red lined disease on the graph paper of our body.

4. We express our emotions through change in body motion.

Dr. Franz Alexander says - "All our emotions we express through physiological changes. Fear by palpitation of the heart, anger by increased heart activity, elevation of B.P. and changes in carbohydrate metabolism, despair by deep inspiration and expiration called sighing.  (The interaction with other people emotions. Emotions by act perceived stimulation, which from brain work on body parts, muscles, glands, systems. And then they are again visibly expressed in terms of our emotions as reaction to all this process.)

(The cycle is from emotions to emotions)

5. Our unexpressed emotions also create disorder.

Dr. Kenneth Walker shows that not only our expressed but our unexpressed emotion create disorders in our body. For instance, the suppression of anger adrenalin and sugar get poured into the body stream.

6. Inter-relation between emotion and disease.

Therefore, it would be an absurdity to suppose that every emotion turns into visible disease. It is equally illogical on the other hand, to suppose that disease, when visible, should be linked with an immediate preceding cause.

To link up a crude superficial cause effect relation brings no credit to the modern day’s intelligence. If somebody gets his leg broken, then the conclusion has to be that a broken leg must have relation with past emotion - though apparently unknown.


(to be continued .. )


Vijay R. Joshi.