Your Sacred Temple

Your body is a temple. Do not allow miscreants to trespass into this holy shrine. What kind of people would you like to invite home as your guests, those who are unethical, manipulative and destructive or those who are benign, altruistic and constructive? There is no doubt that you would opt for the latter group of visitors because you do care for your home, and ward away the troublemakers. The fear of losing your hearth and home is so great that you can go to extremes to exercise great precautionary measures to safeguard your house from being vandalised. Your home is your prized possession that you would like everyone to admire and feel comfortable in. Surprisingly, when it is the question of one’s own body – the abode of the soul – one lacks the passion and fervour to preserve it from deteriorating; the body is subjected to gross negligence for the sake of satiating the desires of the carnal mind. 

The attitude towards one’s health is in stark contrast to that shown towards your home. Your body is open to all kinds of anti-social elements that ravage and putrefy the body. Fear is the master enemy, and under fear work its subordinate emotions of anger, jealousy, envy, hatred, malice, sloth, greed and lust. With most people, the security alert is lacking. As a result they live as hostages to the demands of these enemies who control them, and when failing to fulfill these demands, the enemies could altogether turn fairly nasty and cause a whole lot of emotional and mental torment for the person. Moreover, the body is subjected to a great deal of poisonous substances through food-stuffs such as flesh of animals, alcohol, processed foods, nicotine and a whole lot of things that people consume in fast-food joints and elsewhere. The gluttony of the lower self surpasses all good reasoning, thus compelling the self to indulge in all that is detrimental to one’s body and soul.

When you are out camping in the wilderness your only weapon that protects and guards you against the wild beasts is a blazing fire, which you light around your encampment while you rest at night. Similarly, you need to protect your being with the Flames of the spiritual fire blazing through your magnetic field. You need to light this fire with the power of your will and mind in order to keep yourself safe against the onslaughts of the unscrupulous invaders. Prayer, mantras and meditation can help build a strong barricade of pure energy around you. All your base desires, cravings and indulgences that are detrimental to your health will automatically fall apart over a period of time with the intensity of the fire, and liberate you from all kinds of impurities and poisons so that you are free to enjoy radiant health at all levels of your being.