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Secrets of Health & Happiness: Helping you overcome your negative life patterns
Secrets of Health & Happiness: Helping you overcome your negative life patterns
Secrets of Health & Happiness: Helping you overcome your negative life patterns
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Throughout history, wise men have been aware of the relationship
between right thinking, positive attitudes, good habits and good health. To be truly healthy and happy, a person needs to be at peace with himself and in harmony with the world around him.


Dada J. P. Vaswani, the most rational author who has a scientific bent of mind, recommends several practical secrets of maintaining a healthy body and a happy mind and all said so simply that it enters our consciousness and drives us to implement them.


Feel energised and tap into the incredible source of vitality, energy and healing through the pages of this miraculous book.

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Release dateMar 16, 2020
ISBN9789386004154
Secrets of Health & Happiness: Helping you overcome your negative life patterns
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J.P. Vaswani

Dada J. P. Vaswani is the author of over 200 self-help and inspirational titles, including the bestselling Daily Appointment with God and Why Do Good People Suffer? One of contemporary India’s leading nonsectarian spiritual leaders, his books are filled with enlightening anecdotes from world traditions and practical wisdom that helps many people to start living confident, fulfilling, and connected lives. Dada, as he is known to his admirers and followers, has held audiences with prominent world leaders, including the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, and Pope John Paul II. As the spiritual head of the Sadhu Vaswani Mission, he has been a tireless advocate for animal rights and non-violence for the past half century. Visit him online at www.sadhuvaswani.org. One of India’s foremost spiritual leaders, J. P. Vaswani is the author of more than two hundred inspirational and self-help books, most of them bestsellers. A scientist-turned-philosopher, he is widely admired all over the world for his message of practical optimism.

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    Life

    LIFE— THE MOST PRECIOUS GIFT

     I f I were to ask you this question, What is your most precious possession? what would be your reply?

    Many of you, I believe, will point to your properties, the real estate you own— immovable properties as they are called.

    Quite a few of you will mention your bank accounts, your fixed deposits or perhaps the stocks and shares, the bonds and government securities in which you have very wisely invested.

    Some of you may consider gold and silver, rubies and diamonds, the family jewels as your most precious possession.

    And yet, I must tell you that there is something far more precious than all these things put together, which is yours and yours alone! I would go one step further and say that to retain this unique possession, you would gladly part with all that I mentioned earlier — your land and money and stocks and gold— and still feel that you have struck a very good bargain!

    I ask you to reflect once again: what is your most precious possession?

    Sometime ago, I read an amusing story about a newly married couple. They were on their honeymoon, staying on the fifteenth floor of a 5-Star hotel. The young husband took his wife in his arms and said to her, Honey, you can’t imagine how much I love you! You are so precious to me, more precious than I can ever express in words!

    Just at that moment, the floor began to sway under his feet, the walls and doors and windows seemed to move and cries of Earthquake! Earthquake! could be heard in the corridor outside.

    Immediately, the young husband rushed out of the room. He did not bother to wait for the elevator to bring him down from the fifteenth floor. He went down fifteen flights of steps as fast as his legs could carry him and did not stop till he arrived on the ground floor and got out of the hotel.

    He had forgotten all about his precious wife!

    She joined him much later, when the conscientious hotel staff had helped to evacuate all guests. She said to him bitterly, What was it you were telling me? That I was your most precious possession— and yet you completely forgot me when it came to saving your own life!

    Let us face it friends— our life is more precious by far than anything else in this world. All your real estates, all your bank accounts, all your stocks and shares, all your gold and silver you would gladly part with, to be able to retain this most precious possession— your life!

    A luxury cruise liner was on its way from London to New York. On the high seas, there was a sudden mishap; the engines failed and the liner began to sink. Too late they realised that there were not enough lifeboats that were serviceable to save everyone on board. The captain announced that the passengers would have to pick lots to decide who would be the fortunate ones to get places in the lifeboats.

    And so the lots were cast. There was a rich man on board who was not lucky enough to secure a place in the lifeboats. He went to each of the passengers who had secured places in the lifeboats and said to them, Here is a blank cheque! Take as much money as you wish! Give me your place in exchange!

    People stared at him in disbelief. What are you talking? they said to him. Even if you give us all the gold in the world, we would not exchange places with you! You can keep your millions— our life is more precious to us!

    Life is indeed, man’s most precious possession!

    Mazorin was a famous statesman, who was the chief counsellor to the French emperor. His duties took him to the four corners of the globe, as he travelled with the emperor’s most confidential messages to different countries. Whenever he arrived in a country, he would attend to his official duties and then visit curio shops. He was very fond of collecting antiques, curios, relics of art, rare paintings and icons. His home in Paris overflowed with these collections, many of which were displayed in a grand hall, which he had specially built for this purpose. His friends who visited him, saw the artefacts that he had collected over the years, and were lost in amazement. Truly, it was one of the best collections any individual possessed in the world! Only royal museums could boast of better collections!

    Mazorin loved his antiques and curios. When he was at home, he would spend hours gazing at his precious collections. He knew each and every piece intimately — where it came from, what was its history, why it was valuable and how much he had paid for it. He had given each piece a name— and he would take each one in his hand, feel it, touch it, study it lovingly, and even talk to it! Truly, this collection was the love of his life!

    Years passed. Mazorin fell ill, and the doctors who were treating him despaired of his condition. His end was near and they advised that he should be confined to bed.

    That night, Mazorin lay awake on his sick-bed. He knew he did not have long to live. On an impulse he decided that he would take one last look at his precious collection, before he was called away on his final journey. With faltering steps, he walked to his private museum and began looking at each object, which he had acquired with such love and care. I have come to bid you farewell, he whispered. I do not know if I will ever see you again. The long hours he had spent, the painstaking efforts he had taken to build his collection, the love and care he had lavished on protecting, preserving and displaying each object, flashed before his mind’s eye. Aloud he said, standing in the middle of the grand hall, I shall have to leave all this behind! I will not be able to take even one of these precious objects with me, when the call comes!

    How true! We cannot carry anything with ourselves when the call comes— and the call must come to each one of us. It is an inevitable call, it must be obeyed— and we leave everything behind when it comes. Nothing belongs to us— for if it did, we would be able to take it with us! But nothing is truly ours— for we leave everything behind. Everything belongs to mother earth— back to the earth it must go.

    When two brothers partition their property, they draw a line across the land and say: this portion belongs to me and that portion belongs to you. Surely, mother earth must laugh on hearing this! For she knows that nothing really belongs to anyone of us. Sooner or later, we will have to let go of it all.

    Na kuch mera, sab kuch tera!

    Nothing is mine, all that is, is Thine!

    Rightly has it been said: when wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; but when life is lost, all is lost!

    A holy man had an advertisement inserted in the Lahore Tribune— which was at that time, the most widely circulated newspaper in undivided Northern India. The advertisement ran thus:

    WANTED: A MAN

    Who is prepared to exchange his life for Rupees Ten Lakhs.

    Those interested please contact Box No. 115, c/o The Tribune, Lahore.

    The advertisement appeared on three different occasions. As you may imagine, ten lakhs was not a small sum in those days, perhaps it would be the equivalent of ten million today! The holy man repeated the advertisement on three different days, but he did not get a single response— not even an enquiry! No one was prepared to exchange his life for any amount of money.

    Life is the most precious possession of man. That is why no one wants to give up life. Everyone clings to life.

    This was the realisation that came to Prince Siddhartha, when he became Gautama Buddha. We all know the moving story of this great one who renounced his palace and its pleasures, and donned the garb of a mendicant to enter the tapoban a forest of meditation. After intense austerity and spiritual quest, enlightenment came to him. In a vision he beheld that the root of all sorrow, the root of all suffering, the root of man’s agony, pain and anguish, was this clinging to life— tanha as he called it.

    Everyone clings to life; no one is prepared to give up life easily. And yet, life becomes truly worthwhile, truly worth living, only when it is happy, healthy and harmonious! If life is not healthy, it becomes a burden. If life is not happy it becomes drudgery! If life is not harmonious— it becomes a source of great sorrow.

    There was an old woman who once came to meet me. She was always in need; she was always miserable; she had much to be bitter about. She had contracted a loathsome skin disease and her own people had thrown her out of the house. She was forced to live out on the streets; indeed even the homeless folk out on the streets shunned her company.

    When she came to see me, she cried bitterly, When will death come to release me? When will death liberate me from this life of sorrow and suffering? I long for death! I beg death to come and take me!

    I wanted to make this woman realise that she did not really mean what she said. I brought a packet of harmless glucose powder mixed with turmeric in a vial and gave

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