Disease Can Be Prevented: Wisdom from Far Eastern Masters

“People often see it as impossible to meet their basic needs directly from the universe, to overcome death, or to perform the so-called miracles that Jesus did while on Earth. The Masters prove these things are part of everyday life. They obtain everything they need directly from the universal source—food, clothing, even money. Learn to fill yourself with joy. Say: ‘Infinite love fills my soul and flows through my body with perfect life.’ Make everything around you beautiful and cheerful. Cultivate a sense of humor. Rejoice in the sunshine.”

“There is no natural law forcing humans into decline and death; only accidents can cause that. There is no inevitable aging process in the body or cells—nothing that slowly disables a person. So death can be prevented; illness is primarily a lack of well-being, or santi, meaning the absence of a pleasant, cheerful spiritual calm reflected by the spirit onto the body. Mental weakness in old age is simply a term that hides human ignorance of its causes—certain faulty conditions in body and soul. Even accidents can be avoided with the right spiritual attitude. The Siddhas said: The body’s vitality can be maintained so naturally and effortlessly that infectious and other diseases like plague or flu can be resisted. Siddhas can even carry germs without falling ill.”

“Youth is truly the divine within us; it is the spiritual life in a person—the life in its full beauty. The only life that lives and loves is the only life that lasts forever. Old age is not spiritual, mortal, ugly, or real. Thoughts of fear, pain, and sadness cause what we call aging. Thoughts of joy, love, and ideals create beauty—the essence of youth. Old age is just a shell hiding the true jewel of youth inside. The alchemist within us removes worn-out, dead cells and brings forth the golden glow of new skin with lasting health and kindness. Indeed, where divine love reveals itself, eternal youth reigns. The divine alchemist lives in our temple, constantly creating new, beautiful, and young cells.”

“When Jesus was crucified, He sacrificed His body—the outer shell, the body we see—to prove there is a deeper, spiritual body. This spiritual body was what He revealed when He rose from the tomb. This was the body He referred to when He said: ‘Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’ He did this to show we all have the same spiritual body and can do the works He did. The fact is, Jesus could have saved Himself if He had wanted to. He surely realized a great change was happening in His body. He also saw that people around Him couldn’t understand that, like Him, they could reveal their spiritual body, despite His efforts to show them. They only saw the physical; Jesus understood that if He revealed His spiritual body without a visible change, they wouldn’t recognize the difference between spiritual and material. So He chose crucifixion to create that change.”

“If you want to know the great Unknown—yourself—go into your inner room and close the door. There you’ll find your greatest enemy and learn how to master it. There you’ll find your true self. Your most loyal friend, wisest teacher, and most reliable advisor—yourself. There you’ll find the altar—yourself—where God, the unquenchable fire, is the source of all good, strength, and power. You’ll know that God is in the deepest silence. You’ll realize the holiest of holies is within yourself. You’ll feel and know that every desire is in God’s spirit and is therefore God’s desire.”