Human Health

continued--Spiritual health--The concept of the word 'spirit' is not clear to the majority of the people who on consultation with a dictionary find a number of meanings which will not help to link with the concept of health. Spirit according to Hindu philosophy is atma (soul ?) residing inside a living being and the main driving force for survival. Atma , it is said , is immortal, it can not be cut, burnt, gagged or drowned and remains even after the death of the living being. One can never see it but can be felt that there is something inside inspiring, hoping , driving to get some good things or even fighting with the evil things that so often arise in the mind. When the warning of the atma goes unheeded , there will be chance of committing evil acts. Atma never participates in any work good or bad , it is onlooker, silent and seemingly adviser to take recourse to lively actions of life. When the living being dies, atma finds it as unworthy abode and leaves it. Where it goes to live ? Does it become ghost/phantom ?What is its destination after leaving from the body of the living being ?  The postulation holds that the Great Atma which is the Chief Architect to form the Universe receive the atmas coming after the deaths of the livings beings and again let them go to the new born ; the cycle will continue so long the living world will sustain.

                     To many it is a confused theory , how the spirit go to help the humans and unless there are physical or even mental demonstration of getting good or bad effect, spiritual health concept is just a myth or another hypothesis only. An individual  blessed with all the requirements of life suddenly finds one morning the loss of his job/business or death of his near and dear one or his residence destroyed by natural calamities or any such incidents that take away his smooth running life, the state of the sufferer may be well imagined. Who can render help and console him and show the next course of action towards restoration ?  It is the resident spirit that can present him the panacea to take fresh run in life. It is the symptom of healthy spirit or in other words the spiritual health that comes out in right time and place to lead the sufferer to proper redemption. Material improvement giving a super cozy life without any spiritual support may break down at any moment
and there are so many examples. Many civilization did spring up  in many countries in the past and barring a few all of them perished due to lack of spiritual help and support. This energy is unknown like the black energy of physics, the difference is that the black energy effect has not yet been established where as the spiritual energy is manifest by its actions. This clearly confirms that spiritual energy or health is not just a myth and is equally essential for the humans.         ( to be continued..)