Dr. Rajiv C. Sharangpani
M.S. (General Surgery)
Diplomsportmedizin
(Cologne, Germany)
 
 
THE MATTER WITHOUT A HEART


THE MATTER WITHOUT A HEART : -


The world is getting increasingly mechanised and thus the population is becoming increasingly sedentary. Whatever is not used properly simply degenerates is the rule of the body. Heart is no exception. A big heartless industry is growing around the heart of a hapless world citizen. This industry is selling its plumbing devices which remove the "blocks" much the same way a plumber removes blocks in the water or sewage pipe. People are increasingly told to fix their problem than prevent it.

Prevention is better that cure. Who has not heard this ? The important thing is to know the "How" of prevention. Much before the physical heart is damaged the mental and spiritual components of heart get damaged. In the language the expressions regarding the heart are not their for nothing. He took it to his heart, she was heart broken, he has no heart, heart to heart talk, are some of the expressions which tell us that social behaviour has much to do with heart.

We must have a large heart if we do not want to have an enlarged heart requiring some treatment. WE MUST KNOW HOW TO GIVE. We only know how to take. WE MUST KNOW WHEN TO SAY SORRY WHEN WE ARE IN THE WRONG. We only expect others to say sorry. WE MUST FORGIVE FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEART. We not only do not forgive but think of vengeance. All this is possible if we correct our breathing. Abdominal breathing will prepare us for this attitude which is the essence of spirituality. Heart problem is an EGO problem. Ego does not mind killing the body. Ego excels in pain and destruction. Pain strengthens the ego. Pleasure dissolves the ego. In fact you cannot have pleasure, joy or bliss if you have ego. Heart is just a part of our body connected totally with the rest of the body. We cannot isolate any part of the body for treatment for we do not know where one part ends and other begins. Look after your body as a whole. It is holy to do it that way.