You design your body every day
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February 28, 2011
The Indian tradition has developed some great, unique sciences. One of the unique sciences that came out of the inner space of Indian rishis is samudrika lakshana. Samudrika lakshana is the way in which the Vedic tradition looks at the body and mind, and how that plays an important role in the manner that we eat, dress, medicate our body, maintain it, and sleep.
Everything is thoroughly influenced by one concept: your body is the shell of your consciousness; it is consciously defined, designed, created and developed by your will. This science and truth forms the foundational base of the Indian medicinal systems like Siddha, Ayurveda, and all Indian medicinal systems. This truth is also the base for our dressing system. By studying the physical image and the science of a person’s measurements, the mental set-up is studied and the revelations about the mental set-up are understood, the truths about the mental set-up are revealed. This theory forms the foundation base of yoga.
The way you have the body does not mean you are cursed once and for all. No. You can alter it. If you alter your body, the major samskaras of your system can be completely uprooted. Your body is a shell consciously created by your will. With this understanding, constantly work on it. Do not leave blind spots on your body. Blind spots are unattended spots.
I give you one example. For the people who have a huge belly, it means you have left that spot unattended for the last few years: a blind spot. When it had started growing, what were you doing? It was after all growing around you. It was not that it grew somewhere then someone brought it and assembled it on you. No. Blind spot! And after growing a huge belly, you can’t see many lower parts of your own body!
I have seen that our Masters are not liars. They have done amazing research on this science of how a body is willfully designed, developed, created and expressed by your consciousness, and by every thought and action you created in your system. When you have certain thoughts continuously, these thoughts directly work on your system. When you have certain thoughts continuously but you don’t act upon them, they also work on your system. When you have certain thoughts and continuously suppress them, they also work on your system!
The body is not just a bio-mechanism; it is a living entity created by an independent intelligence. Understand, every day you design your body. It is not that just once in a year, on your birthday, you design your body. No. Every day it changes. That is why I say, jump out of bed the moment you wake up! Every day you design your body.
Once you know your body and the mental structures, you know how to alter it and alter the mental structure. It can free you from many of the mental and structural sufferings you are carrying. It can liberate you and lead you to enlightenment.