Overcome All Obstacles : Swami Sivananda

1. A weak, emaciated and decrepit old body is unfit for Yoga Sadhana.

2. Be not a victim of imaginary ills and diseases.

3. Let your body be strong, healthy and pure. Body- building is
nation-building.

4. Practise Sirshasana, Sarvangasana, Matsyasana
and Paschimottanasana and a few rounds of Sukh
Purvak Pranayama in the morning. You will
possess wonderful health.

5. Thinking of a disease constantly will intensify it.
Feel always: “I am healthy in body and mind”.

6. Take pure food. You will then have a pure intellect
and good memory. You will attain Self-realisation
with the aid of the pure intellect and good memory.

7. First offer to the Lord whatever you eat, then take
it as His Prasad. This will purify your food.

8. Take illness as the Lord’s blessing.

9. Again and again assert: “I am the bodiless,
disease-less, all-pervading immortal Soul or
Atma”.

10. Every disease is a Karmic purgation.

11. All diseases take their origin in the mind. Treat the
mind first, then the physical diseases will disappear.

12. Worry has caused newer and deadlier diseases, like
blood pressure, heart trouble, nervous breakdown etc.

13. Fear checks the flow of blood and even poisons it. Laughter
and cheerfulness increase the circulation of blood. They are
blood tonics.

14. Ill-health is a myth. It does not exist beyond the range of the
physical and mental sheaths. The body and mind alone are
subject to diseases. The Atma, your true Self, is beyond these
and, therefore, eternally free from diseases and death.

15. Brahmacharya rejuvenates. It augments energy, nerve and
brain power and vitality. It is the life-ray of man.

16. The practice of Hatha Yoga to a limited extent is necessary to
keep you fit, hale and healthy.

17. Hatha Yoga is a course of psycho-physiological discipline for
the attainment of complete mastery over the body, the nervous
system and Prana.

18. The control of the body and its subordination to the Spirit
makes the Hatha Yogic system an invaluable aid to the aspirant.

19. Diseases, worries and troubles can affect only the physical
and mental aspects, but not the spiritual Self.

20. Disharmony of thought, word and deed is the cause of all
troubles, miseries and quarrels in this world.

Courtesy: “Imaya Geetham”, Tamil monthly, Dec.2007