HEALTH IS WEALTH ONLY, UNTIL YOU BECOME AWARE OF THE REAL WEALTH

Until you become aware of your real wealth, you will value and you will run after the worldly or physical wealth. It is like a child, who always runs after his toys and holds them to his heart because he knows nothing more than that or nothing beyond his toys. As, he grows out of his childhood and knows other things on the sidelines, the toys are dropped automatically. He does not have to drop. He, thus holds the toys only, until he knows something beyond the toy.

The same is true for the whole of the humanity as well. Each, one of us, is holding toys of different types, of different shapes; of different sizes; of different colours etc which we pick up, from here, during our short visit to this world. We hold them to our hearts, all the time, assuming that, they are all. We, therefore, feel sad and miserable when, they are lost and get damaged and become happy and joyful, when these toys get enriched in different ways. You, thus, remain busy, throughout your life, with these toys. You drop one and pick up another, may be of different colour; different size or of shape but the fact is that you, somehow, continue holding one or the other toy. This is how the whole life passes away, until death, when all your toys are taken away by the nature. Death takes away, all your possessions in one shot.

That’s how, most of the human beings, end up living their lives. They remain lost and entangled with their physical possessions, assuming that this is the only way to exist here. The whole life, thus happens and is spent in tending their toys and existing here, for the toys only. Living here as a toy and existing here, for toys is to exist here as a body and for the bodies only. This is a waste of life because, living here as a body and for the bodies is, to live a fake life, since physical is fake, physical is not your reality.

The truth is that you are a screen and not a picture. Screen is your reality. Because, you are too busy or lost, right now, in the pictures and hence you are missing the screen. However, if you just keep flowing with the pictures or the movement, without getting stuck with them, then one day, you will become aware of the screen too. A sudden realization will happen to you that, if I can see the pictures then, there must be a screen too, because without a screen, you just cannot see the pictures; without the screen, pictures just cannot arise and happen. Hence, to become aware of your real wealth, the only thing you need to do is to treat temporary as temporary, treat toys as toys or treat physical (nashvar) as physical (nashvar) and not treating those toys as real, as you are doing now. Your involvement with the physical should be only to the extent necessary and you shouldn’t give too much importance to your possessions.

Once a person becomes aware of his reality then, all his toys or all those things which are not essential or integral to his existence will drop off, automatically, without his doing. He would not need to do that. That is what real renunciation is. Now, the worldly possessions can no longer attract or bind you. Toys look attractive, so long, you get attracted to them because, you don’t yet, know, your real wealth. Once, you know your real wealth than, health or anything else for that matter, would no longer appear to be the wealth to you. Meditation is the method to become aware of the screen, the real wealth.