In Focus

• Health – exercise, diet and sleep... By Swami Prem Sarito
• Health, wealth, happiness and peace in today’s turvy- topsy world By Ma Prem Tao
• Health and Self Healing By Ma Deva Naisha
• From Illness to Wellness By Swami Chaitanya Keerti
• Health And The Modern Man By Ma Anand Bhagawati

Oh Lordy! Osho, you really got me this time!

Meditation – “Living life from the center of the navel” you said. Since 1968 I have been working on this one, but I think I’m more of a lover than a meditator and end up preferring to play. Well, at 82 I’m not much good at that any more either.

Osho talked about three main requirements one must realize before even thinking about meditation – good, healthy exercise; good, healthy food; and good, sound sleep…. Right on, but my life story has shown an inconsistent approach to all three, with results ranging from tepid to rapture.

With regard to exercise, as a youth in Bishop Cotton School, Simla, they made us exercise. I came in 47th out of around 50 in the 1943 marathon. I desperately hung on to my place as an erratic spin bowler in the 4th Eleven. And in Hockey – heh, I was a little English boy competing with INDIANS!
As an adult I skied all winter, sailed all summer and had sex all year around. Later, in spiritual middle age I took up yoga but abandoned it when I went to Pune. Iyengar was just down the block and anyone who wanted to continue their practice went there. So no skiing, no sailing, no yoga – down to sex. On the Ranch I walked to all the building sites I was supervising, rain or shine, for the first couple of years until the buses came along. Later, in California I hopped into my car to go shopping in the corner drugstore. Here, retired in Guatemala over the last twenty years I swam, did a little yoga, cycled around town and walked the mountain trails.

Now, after all that I can’t really say my meditation got much deeper so when I reached 80 I kind of slacked off, quit yoga again, began to take rickshaws, catch boats to the next village instead of hiking, and have acquired a pot-belly of noble proportions. Meditation? Like sex, kind of sketchy.

Diet? I was always skinny and for the first half of my life I ate anything that was offered. When I got spiritual I became a vegetarian, tried Macrobiotics and Raw Food and spent three weeks detoxing at the local Wheatgrass Institute. I came away with clear eyes and lean as a whippet but that didn’t sustain me through cold winter nights and I went back to cooking. Later, in Lucknow (pigs everywhere around Papaji’s house) I got typhoid and, as a consequence, anemia and had to get back into chicken and fish. Meditation? Yes, in a lazy kind of way. Did I mention my belly?

With sleep I was a normal 8-hour a night guy but when I hit the Ranch things changed. Twelve hour shifts and being on call as an architect during the Hotel crunch gave me a maximum of 6 hours with occasional hikes through the snow at 3 in the morning to sort out a problem with a staircase. Meditation?…that was it…the work.

Since then I have found sleep time extending back to 8 or 9 hours including afternoon siestas. After midnight here it’s totally silent and, if I wake up to pee, there are times when I don’t fall asleep again. Osho said you can’t try to meditate just as you can’t try to fall asleep. So I lie in my comfortable bed and let the thoughts run rampant. Both dozing and meditating, sitting up in bed before I get up are periods of warm, cozy delight.

Osho used to tell us to put on our plates only 75% of the food we chose, think carefully about our choices and chew it thoroughly. Buddha’s disciple Anando with whom he shared a room would watch him sleep and wonder at the aliveness of his Master even asleep; this story reminds me of a well-known picture of Osho lying on his side, fast asleep and blissed out.

Here’s a potent quote from the founder of T’ai Chi Ch’uan, the Taoist Chang San Feng:
Sleeping on a pillow of stone
Forgetting the calendar, the seasons.
When the ch’I sinks to the abdomen
The spiritual nature will be perfect and complete.

Looking around I notice old people getting cranky, never exercising, over-eating and sleeping fitfully. Many of our visiting tourists are obese and obviously in pain and I don’t want to end my life like that, so Osho, you’re absolutely right. For me it’s a nudge in time. I have to shake my lazy ass, get back into exercising my body and lose this ponderous pot. Drop the pasta, bread, Cabernet Sauvignon and the Chota Pegs. Crash at ten and wake up at dawn. Squeeze a little more juice out of my old age. Meditate and realize.

Maybe I’ve been letting go too much…should I get a grip?…that’s like asking should I be attached to surrender or surrender to attachment?

Swami Prem Sarito

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A flock of birds
A tall Norfolk pine
The Trades come
The tree sways
Wings flutter and perch
Peace. Bliss.

I just returned from Canada and what captured me again and again, were the enormous flocks of birds of all kinds literally swooping through the skies in awesome, constantly changing formations as they gathered to head south. Their energy, the shifting of leaders, shapes and designs, and the obvious communication going on at light-speed, took my breath away. I like birds, but quite frankly, had not really gone out of my way to observe or engage them. 

Now for some reason, every time a flock is airborne their movement grabs my attention and I am with them, rapt and enchanted.  A peaceful corps on their journey uses so many skills and multi-faceted talents and abilities, not only of inter-dimensional communication but of oneness, teamwork and intuition, and a well- honed sense of space and kinetics. I bow to them and their innate intelligences, and am drawn since then to their group momentum. From my window in Hawaii, I have the perfect perch from which to be continually awed and enthralled, as the opening poem illustrates.  And this is so good.

Being present with simple events, especially natural ones as they are happening and enjoying the liveliness of life’s moments is a healthy return.  Our present time of life is filled with greater intensity, daily chaotic turns of events, pressures, speed, fewer and fewer external securities and the illusions of them, and all the myriad things that we have and that have us, that can so easily take one away from the core of oneself. As well as unparalleled moments of indescribable bliss.

And I know. As all that happened to me. But let’s face it. You have to get lost, first.  You have to lose yourself, and be really lost, in order to begin finding yourself again. It’s part of the process we all know so well.  By way of example, I am reminded of Osho’s illustration of the good fortune and assistance of disruptions and crises by saying; “the fish in the water is not thirsty”.

I am just so happy that I started a long time ago, because it takes a long time and this juncture of heightened everything, actually makes it easier. Easier to reach down deeper than ever before, being impelled to do so, and touch that true place inside, where all structure falls away and you feel the immense ahhhh that issues from there. Letting go of the seductive peripheries of life, the madness-making activities, the illusions of well-being through what one has, coming to the real thing.

In my case I made the decision to stop yo-yoing in all aspects of life, not only food, but emotions, actions, focus and intention; in essence who it was I listen to and followed. I no longer wish to sacrifice this moment or any other for the now obvious water-treading, time-wasters of the past. Those thoughts that carry those little pitchforks over their heads. Rather now to live from the core which is through my deeper belly, the place of truthful knowing and live a simpler, easier, calmer life. Or put another way, to live from this quiet, calm, exquisite place that truly belongs to me. Here I have been experiencing the exquisite joy that my life is. I’ve given up the dramas!  And everything is different, changed. It’s the same life but a completely different perception and focus. 

From where I sit, health and well-being comes from finally listening to this patient and persistent place of peace-making within, bringing the inner ha. Creating from here in my work, eating from here, taking care of my body from its needs, living my heart and being from this exquisite source. In short living in conjunction with the core is the way that has not only been forced upon me by all the chaos of this time but is also what has always wanted to be.

Sounds almost trite when put into words, but the experience of discovering this truth and of living from it, is anything but.  This has been the source of my incomparable joy since this awakening understanding. And I hope it is a long-lasting relationship.

Yes it’s true that the very accelerated madness of our time wears us down, but it is this same phenomenon that is also saving us.  The beauty of having too much, more than we need, certainly to be happy; doing too much, more than the operating system can take, is that a point comes where something has to give.

And thank God for that, and that is was me.  I also realized a deep heart’s desire that has been tugging at my coat tails as long as I can remember, but in the old routine would never ever have made it to actually being lived.

For those people struggling under the weight of overwhelm and not enough time or money or peace and running to try and keep up to God knows what, the problem is only that they are at that time, completely disconnected from their core, their precious, essential, inner adviser; their inner guru.  All that’s needed is to stop.  And sometimes what’s needed to make us stop is exactly all the frenzy and chaos, challenge and discontent that is so easy to experience at this time.

So I am getting much more sleep than I allowed before. I am eating what my body enjoys and is nourishing for it and what feels good inside as it goes down. And I am listening within to my own inner counsel. Everything in life is assisting us to find our way now, not only to who we are, but to what we are doing here. I am here to make myself happy and to spread that infectious happiness and joy everywhere. I like that purpose!

Recently I had an experience that changed everything and led to the decisions above-described. All of a sudden I was experiencing myself as the soul who was looking at my body-being and realizing that this is one of many, many bodies I have lived in and been responsible for. The soul made it clear that my job is to make my body happy and balanced. Body here means body, mind, emotions, the whole shebang. 

It was such an amazing feeling to be looking at what I know as me, from a very different, albeit loving and concerned place, but separate, although connected. My love for all of this body was stronger than ever before and the compassion I felt from seeing and understanding now, has only grown and so it’s been much easier to take a different kind of care of it all.  And that this wonderful, wonderful, strong system has been waiting for me to get it and finally take charge And I know that I am the soul and have great reverence for my truly courageous and miraculous body.

A story: About 22 years ago when I lived on Maui, I was working at the Tarot Patch giving readings, when a couple came and sat down for a session.  Their conversation intrigued me, especially their comments following information given them about patternings of their various emotional and psychological systems. They would say things such as, “ oh so that is what they are experiencing.  Hmmm.  How interesting”, or, “ oh, now I see how this body is working and dealing with things”.  And they were so happy! As I mentioned a pattern or a critical shift coming that needed attention, they commented from, it seemed to me, a distanced place although with full enthusiasm. And I was very curious about them. I had never before met this kind of energetic.

It was only later that they told me that they had come as walk-ins. I had no idea what that was and so they explained it to me. They were a soul who entered and took over a body by request.  They were learning about their new bodies and working very hard at it, to try and understand, harmonize and balance this body mind system that they now inhabited. And their love and commitment was 100%.

My experience was not unlike theirs. I, like they, are devotional in this drive to bring harmony, balance, love and well-being to this one. It is a mission no less, and I can’t describe how thrilled I am to be in this position, to live as radiantly as possible for whatever time we have left together. And I know that I am the one who has been brought in for this purpose. I cherish this time in my life.

…All the stones on your path can become stepping stones. They need not hinder you, you just have to know that they are steps. Look into your suffering, find out that good and bad are all together there. You cannot separate them, so the question of dropping does not arise. You have to use them together -- not as opposites, but as complementaries. And that is possible. Even poison can be used as medicine -- it is used. In fact, on most of the medicines you will find written: POISON -- in red letters. Poison is to kill, but by understanding it you can use it to save somebody who is dying. But if you are foolish, even nectar will kill you; you may drink too much of it. In fact you will drink too much nectar if you can find it.

I am reminded of one of the experiments of Delgado. He had put an electrode in a white rat's brain. And he put a small remote control in front of the rat and taught him to push the button. That button gave the rat the same experience as sexual orgasm. Remember, sexual orgasm does not happen in our genitals, it happens in your brain. Genitals are only the outermost posts of your brain, they simply inform the brain, they simply say, "Okay." The brain goes berserk -- the actual orgasm happens in the brain. So it is possible to have a man's brain just kept in alcohol, and he can have a sexual orgasm without anybody, without any genitals. Nothing is needed because the real experience happens in the brain.

And that white rat ... these white rats are poor fellows. Scientists are after them, they are being imported from all over the world. Once the rat learned the trick, how to push the button, you cannot believe what happened to him: in one hour he pushed the button six hundred times! He wouldn't stop, he went on pushing it. He died! -- because that much orgasm nobody has ever had: six hundred times in one hour. Good food was provided there; everything that he liked ... beautiful white rat girls -- no interest at all in anybody. His only interest was in the button.

He forgot food, he forgot the women, he forgot even to drink, or just to take a little rest. What was happening was so far out, he could not miss a single second. He died on that red button. You just have to be a little alert about your inner composition and you will be surprised to know many things. You will come to know that all your joys are within you, all your miseries are within you. Nobody else creates them, you simply find an excuse in somebody. Everything is within you, and except you nobody else is responsible…

…Once all that confusion is gone, suddenly from the background a new concept of your being emerges. It is more like am-ness than I; it is more existential. It is not egoistic, it is simply a feeling of am-ness. And then you know that it was simply foolish to ask, "How can I drop misery?" because I is the misery, I is the jealousy, I is the hell. And you don't know your real I. The real I you can know only when the false is gone.

The moment the false disappears the real appears.
The death of the false is the birth of the real.
And that quality which I am calling am-ness is the very center of life, the very center of bliss. You will remain the same person in a way, but in another way you will be absolutely discontinuous with the old; you will be absolutely new…
OSHO
From Darkness to Light. #20 Q. 1

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Wellness and perfect health is NORMAL. Ha! What a laugh most people say!  I’ve got my backache, my headache, my swine flu, my suspected undiagnosed possibly terminal running of the nose. Every ‘my’ is ownership…and we know what we are like with our property…we guard it, develop it, nurture it, love it and protect it…sometimes to the death.

Let’s get one thing clear. Pharmaceutical companies and certain individuals of the medical profession don’t make money by getting you well.  They only make money by keeping you sick.  Where is the incentive to get you well? 

I’m not saying the medical profession doesn’t have an important place in our society or that there aren’t any good, honest doctors who genuinely want to heal others but I have seen with my own eyes the cocktails of medication that have been prescribed to people in the US for example and no-one can tell me that the bodies of these patients haven’t been turned into an experimental chemical laboratory, as all these drugs must have an effect on each other.  They never actually recover and assume that old age brings ill health, pain, new knees and hips and degeneration until they expire of exhaustion.  In Ancient China, the doctor was only paid when the patient recovered, which makes far more sense to me. 

Why are we looking outside ourselves for others to heal us anyway?  Having all kinds of tests done to see how sick we can find ourselves in order to give a ‘name’ to our ‘condition’, which is often just a good excuse to get the drugs and feel duty bound to take them because somebody told us to? Come on! We need to take full responsibility for our own health and trust the perfectly Immaculate Inner Doctor that we have all been blessed with!

When we walk across the room, the Mind tells the Body what to move and where. The Body obeys the Mind because it doesn’t have a separate mind of its own. 

The more we practice these habits the faster this mind-body response becomes until it is almost immediate, just like switching on a light. We can run without intellectualizing it! So, if we can do this with the parts of our bodies that we can see, walking and running, we should also be able to do this with the parts of our bodies that we can’t see as well; when it comes to relaxing our internal organs for example, or when we decide to self-heal.

We all share that Higher Power that resides within each one of us, regardless of what religion we like, or the colour of our skin or what we do for a living. Whether we are a good person or bad, it is the Magnificent Prana, the Life Force, that right now beats all of our hearts, making us all One. Unconditionally. It breathes us, functions all of our organs, circulates our blood, digests our food, fights off infection – all of the different aspects and systems of the Prana working individually and in union with each other, just like clockwork.  We are all designed in exactly the same way inside and it all works perfectly without any directions or instructions from us (which I am personally extremely grateful for because I wouldn’t know HOW to tell my lungs to breathe, my heart to beat or my kidneys to function, let alone in union with each other, all day every day!).  I couldn’t tell It to stop even if I wanted It to!

So it’s to this Power that I turn when I need to heal myself and it works every time.  The Prana has been operating me tirelessly since the moment of my conception, right up to now and continues to do so for the rest of my life. Whether I am thinking about it or not, whether I even believe it or not, It still works continuously for me, even when I am sleeping. The Prana is the perfect example of the Unconditional Love the Universe has for us as individuals. It is my dearest and closest Friend in all my life. 

A couple of years ago I slipped and fell to the sound of a thunderous crack in my foot. I immediately knew this was not good, my foot swelled up and was black and blue.  Everybody winced when they saw it; it was not pretty (besides the beautiful deep purple colour of course J).  To tell the truth, it was absolute agony and to make it worse, there was something that could have been a small bone, poking the skin on top of my foot.  I was determined to heal myself as usual and at the same time show the people around how to do it for themselves. So, since I couldn’t go anywhere, I spent hours per day finding the other end of the poking out bit and holding them together…to begin with, after an hour or so of holding it together it just popped back out again, but gradually it stayed in place.  I used arnica, put turmeric (a natural anti-inflammatory) on everything, massaged it, bathed it, had reiki, doubled up on my natural mineral and antioxidant supplements, drank lots of water and taught my classes. I ate well and I did everything I could think of, my goal being to be normal again as soon as possible.  It didn’t take long.

But more importantly I think, is that whenever anyone grimaced and said “...eeww, how is your poor foot? It looks AWFUL!”, I always, without fail, said “better”, “getting better”, “much better thanks”, “fine thank you”, etc., WHATEVER IT FELT LIKE. Instead of complaining and dragging out the healing, my Mind was telling my body that it was better and basically, it obeyed. I was running up and down the beach again every morning after 6 weeks, fit as a fiddle. I don’t know ‘how’ I healed myself any more than I know how the oxygen is extracted from every breath that I take to utilize within my body, while the carbon dioxide that I breathe out nourishes the plant world around me.  ‘How’ is always the domain of the Universe! But I do know a friend who did something similar to his ankle and opted for surgery and is still undergoing treatment for ‘complications’ 2 years later.

We all have this built in, Inner Doctor…but how many of us trust it?  Get a mental image of the Prana at work within your own body and see it all working perfectly.  It doesn’t need to look like anything from a medical journal, just a uniquely personal, inner view of yourself.  It definitely looks like SOMETHING in there, right? If it feels any different to perfect, see it as working towards healing. Meditate on the wellness and perfection in your body. You can absolutely trust It. What Miracles we are! Maybe we just need to be more vigilant about our thinking to combat sickness…THINK WELL THOUGHTS! Let perfect health be ‘normal’ for you too!
To your happiness and health!

Ma Deva Naisha, BSYA (C.I.)

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John Kapp is a famous Western psychologist, researcher and author. He has written several papers on body-mind health. And he has been doing Osho Dynamic meditation for years and has been leading this meditation also.

He says in his biography: "I have been leading drop in Osho Dynamic meditation three times per week for the last 5 years. The outcome for me has been a healing change of attitude from a victim to a beneficiary, improved health, curing a cataract, clearing my mind, improving my memory, listening, tasting, and quality of life."

And he adds: The Chinese model of disease is blocked energy (chi, life force) which has to flow freely for health. No-one is allowed to express emotions, the chi of which is suppressed (blocked) in the garbage can of our unconscious minds. What the mind suppresses the body expresses later as disease. Cathartic meditation empties the garbage can, so is therapeutic. Osho Dynamic meditation should be made available in workplaces and on the NHS to prevent illness and as group therapy."

Osho devised this powerful technique in sixties, and it has cured thousands of people who suffered from stress, depression, low energy or lack of energy, and gave them a fresh new life. They could live their life with zing and zest, bubbling with energy and laughter, as they felt much lighter after throwing out their burden of repressed emotional garbage during the Dynamic Meditation.

Defining illness and wellness, Mr. John Kapp says:"A holistic definition of good health, (wellness, wellbeing) personal to me, is ‘feeling at ease and in harmony with myself and others in my community and environment.’ These feelings depend on my attitude in my mind, and have little or nothing to do with the physical condition of my body."

Osho declared this in the sixties:Man is a disease. To be not at-ease is a dis-ease. Man is unhappy; he wants to be something else, somewhere else. 

He explained: “Man as man is incurable. Unless he becomes divine, he can’t be cured. The more distance you create between you and your body, the nearer you are to the divine. And this nearness transforms you”

To cure sickness, the first step is to accept it. The toughest thing is when a person doesn’t accept his sickness. Then he won’t benefit from the medicine. Masters like Buddha and Nanak have given metaphysical cures for such sickness them. The real master is a physician, not of your ordinary diseases, but of your existential sickness and mental conflicts.

Osho says: “A master isn’t there to philosophies. A master is there to heal you. He is a physician, not a philosopher: But people are always ready to listen to abstract things, because those never touch life.”

Osho tells a joke about Mulla Nasruddin in his old age. As people age, they get troublesome. Children are a nuisance but nothing compared to old people, because the nuisance of the old is supported by experience!

As people age, they need lesser sleep. A foetus sleeps in the womb for 24 hours days, because that’s conducive to the growth it must achieve in nine months. After birth, sleep shortens. The child sleeps 20 hours, then 18, 16, 14… By teenage, he average 8 hours. As beyond 50, sleep lessons further.

Back to the joke… So, Mulla Nasruddin had turned 90 and now he needed no sleep! It would be okay if he kept quiet but he wouldn’t. He’d wake up everyone and start sermonizing. His sons and grandsons were in agony: “Every night, the house becomes a church. We must find a way to make him sleep.”

When the hypnotist came, Nasruddin was lying on his bed. The hypnotist said,“It’s very easy to sleep. Just relax. First I’ll suggest that you are falling into sleep… deeper, deeper, deeper. Don’t resist.”

And Nasruddin obeyed, to his family’s surprise. Even the hypnotist was amazed because Nasruddin was snoring away! Very thankful, the family paid the hypnotist 20 Dollars instead of his usual fee of 10 Dolars. When the hypnotist left, Nasruddin opened an eye and said, “Has that nut gone? Now come here! You idiots, you should give me 20 Dollars and I’ll be silent all night. Don’t waste money. I fooled him within seconds. Who’s heard of people snoring in hypnosis? He doesn’t know the ABC of hypnosis!”

This may sound funny at first but it’s actually poignant. Here’s a person who is obviously not behaving normally but refuses to accept that he may be unwell. If only he were to agree that he needed help and let his family live in peace… Indeed, accepting your sickness is where health begins.

Swami Chaitanya Keerti

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I suppose there is such a creature one could call ‘modern man’ but it is actually the ‘old man’ living in a world that has changed enormously during the last few decades, and with the speed of light to boot. The ‘old man’ is desperate to keep up with the many changes and often looks on with quite some frustration. Because of the many influences that are hammering on him day by day, because of the flood of information washing over him every second, he has lost touch with his inner voice, with his sensibilities and own intelligence.

For example, the medical and pharmaceutical world regularly issues news bulletins that according to the latest research this and that sickness is caused by drinking too much (or too little) milk, or wine, or pick any other, and that the best medicine available to keep the symptoms at bay is ‘Blastitall’. Then a week later some other obscure researcher or medical body recants everything and another miracle medicine or food suggestion has been found!

The fear of becoming sick, old and frail is purposely instilled into society, monetary gains of course being the ultimate goal. The latest scare is the so-called swine flu. Not only do many government bodies and pharmaceutical companies constantly issue unprecedented fear slogans, almost at the same time this ‘threat’ was announced, a miracle inoculation was already being cooked up in laboratories to be manufactured by the millions.

There have been some courageous people speaking out against this inoculation as allegedly it hadn’t even been tested on humans before being manufactured, but most people give way to the pressure like sheep and are willing to have the jab and also gladly bring in their children who don’t even have a choice of saying no. Now claims have been made that the inoculation is dangerous and would make many people sicker than the actual flu itself. Yet the liquid rolls off the assembly lines unrestricted and is being distributed for immediate use and stockpiling.

A recent news item by CBS caught my eye: "If you've been diagnosed with 'probable' or 'presumed' 2009 H1N1 or swine flu in recent months, you may be surprised to know this: odds are you didn’t have H1N1 flu. That's according to state-by-state test results obtained in a three-month-long CBS News investigation. "
  -- CBS News, 10/21/09

I have been also getting widely disseminated e-mails with lengthy instructions how to avoid an infection. Basically, wash your hands! Clean up around your house! Keep your immune system strong! I am wondering if people have forgotten such simple precautions? Now that dubious ‘hand-cleaning gels’ are being pushed at us in supermarkets I am asking what is wrong with plain soap and water?

We have moved too far away from common sense and believe too much in a medical science that sees the body only in parts and not as a whole, hence is only able to offer questionable help against the symptoms that show up.

Health comes with a mind at peace. The Romans used to say “mens sana in corpore sano” (healthy mind in a healthy body) but I feel the opposite is true: in a healthy body resides a healthy mind. It is a fact that happy people live longer; just observe composers and artists who seem to rejuvenate themselves by their positive vibrational activities! Many of them live healthy, active and content until their late eighties or nineties!

Intrinsically we know what we want and need and are best advised to always follow our heart and instincts. If your body is unhappy it does let you know by displaying some symptoms first and if you do not listen then the warnings will increase gradually.  It is good practice to listen to the very first twinges of unease and get to the root of the problem rather than covering it up with temporary band aids handed out by a smiling pharmaceutical industry.

Osho says, “And your body is giving you the right indication; the body is very wise. The mind is a very late arrival. The body has lived millions of years, it knows what is needed. It is the mind that interferes. Mind is very immature, body is very mature. Listen to the body.”
Dang Dang Doko Dang, Chapter 10, Question 1

It is most important to realize is that the body knows how to heal itself. We just forgot about that. Use science and technology where they are supportive for our wellbeing but take back control over your own body now!

“Your body is your temple, it is sacred. Your body is not your enemy. It is not irreligious to love your body, to take care of your body -- it is religious. It is irreligious to torture your body and to destroy it. The religious person will love his body because it is the temple where God lives.
You and your body are not really two, but the manifestation of one. Your soul is your invisible body, and your body is your visible soul. I teach this unity, and with this unity, man becomes whole. I teach you joy, not sadness. I teach you playfulness, not seriousness. I teach you love and laughter, because to me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness.
I don't teach you renunciation, as it has been taught down the ages. I teach you: Rejoice, rejoice, and rejoice again! Rejoicing should be the essential core of my sannyasins.”
OSHO
The Book of Wisdom, Chapter 25

Ma Anand Bhagwati

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