Life is a pandemic! We all are born with a terminal disease which will kill us. To cause a disease, a virus is essential. The virus is programmed within us in genes. Someone asked Bhikku, “What do you do for a living?” He replied, “I don’t live for fighting. Whole life I fight for survival of this body which will eventually not survive. This is the joke of life.”
Trillions of viruses exist beyond our comprehension. Few were won over by human anatomy and their chemistry revealed by comprehension. Viruses have helped men in survival by mutating killer cells into shark cells in the body-colony. They helped us increase average life expectancy up to 85-90 years. Our battles of mortality with pathogens have a long history. We have won the battles, but an imminent war is staring at us from the future. Fortunately, Covid-19 is just a small battle to monitor our preparedness for the war. Are we prepared?
Pharma companies are vying each other at the speed of light to annihilate mutating coronavirus. They eye gold in vaccines but silver in cure. Wearing another virus up their sleeve to adorn, the pampered pharmaceuticals and vested interests stoke fear-mongering touting as if vaccines are the only possibility to end pandemic fear.
This tells us that our bodies are dependent on a vaccine to create a placebo triggering antibodies to kill coronavirus by using the immune system. In fact, our bodies have 90 trillion cells, creating about 20 billion cells in a day about 500,000 every second. Directly exposing to virus, stress and over-abuse our body turns disease-prone. So, we should weaponise our body naturally to generate placebo that triggers a balanced immune reaction that destroys the virus. That’s the answer.
The problem of medical sciences is that they use disease to define health. Health for them is being no-disease. When disease becomes the definition of health, health remains within boundaries of disease undefined. It cannot assume real flowering. If medical sciences had explored health and followed the ancient medicinal systems that healed us naturally, the world would have by far been disease-free. Your belief makes you what you believe in.
Once you believe you are diseased, you would be diseased. Once you deeply believe in health, it will autoactivate the immune system to kill pathogens and remain out of diseases, it will make your entire colony of cells believe in health.
How does the immune system get activated? I heard an interesting story of ancient India that laid the foundation of Ayurveda. Sati, daughter of Daksh Prajapat, married Lord Shiva. Her father felt insulted at his daughter marrying Shiva against his wishes. He organised a yajna (holy sacrificial fire to offer sacrifices) primarily to insult Shiva by inviting everyone except him but, in turn, Sati felt insulted. She entered into the holy pyres of yajna and self-immolated herself. When Shiva heard the news, he became very angry. He picked one strand of his hair incarnating it into a fierce warrior, Virbhadra, and ordered him to kill everyone on Earth. When Virbhadra returned after beheading Daksh Prajapati and finishing most on Earth, Shiva realised that Virbhadra was his own incarnation. He then told Virbhadra to become Sannipaat (fever) to serve humanity.
‘Sannipaat’ (fever) appears first when our body is attacked by pathogens. It raises the body temperature and most pathogens cannot survive that heat. It awakens the collective consciousness of cells to kill. Why fever is created in the body is a mystery for science. Certain chemicals tell hypothalamus to increase body temperature when they meet bacteria and viruses and also awaken white blood cells into action. Amid all the action, the mind looks fearful. So scared that it brings thoughts of death. Thoughts of dying of a disease in future in fact put in motion such thoughts embedded into our body cells by chain reaction. You are slowly importing a future death into your body cell in the present now. We work with our instinctual fear of the world. That world is dangerous, full of beasts, snakes, viruses, murderers out to kill. These thoughts create permanent patterns and it becomes harder to think beyond them.
It once happened that a plague erupted in a kingdom. The king and priests prayed to Lord Shiva to have mercy. The God agreed and deployed his bull Nandi, who fought with the plague fiercely. Finally, the plague asked him to allow it to enter the city for a day and to kill just one person in the city. The magnanimous Nandi agreed. But thousands of men died. Nandi furiously asked the plague: “You lied, you are a liar.” But the plague said, “No, I just infected one man, others died by looking at him.”
Why is man so scared? Man is scared because he has forgotten his heart and inner being. You exist. You exist beyond life and death. Life and death happen to you like ageing happens. But your mind thinks you exist because you think you exist. That’s the trick of mind. It keeps on minimising your existence in life, making you completely heartless. Heart is the real master. Go to it. Before your mind sinks your heart, you sink into it. Let it flow in joy, let it dance in ecstasy. Go after the flying birds, fly with them till they vanish into the sky. Maximise your heart, you will be rooted back into life. When you maximise your heart, it will minimise your mind and your whole body will understand the chemistry of life. Buddha calls it “compassion”. Towards your own self. When compassion travels outside, it heals others. One man’s compassion can grow as much as it can heal all the sufferings from the entire earth. That is the power of compassion.
Be prepared to ward off the virus. Wear a good-quality mask while stepping out of the house. Mask compliance rate in Hong Kong during rush hours is 97%. No wonder, in the city of 7.5 million people, only six deaths from Covid-19 have taken place. In India people want to be mask-savvy and also want to show who is mask-savvy, so the mask slips down their nose and lips dangles over the chin. Masking India effectively can reduce exposure to viruses. Two, excessive dependence on nutraceuticals, supplements and exercises will further imbalance immunity and start killing good cells. And three, be out of bounds of mind and slip into the womb of heart.
