The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart — Helen Keller We humans are blessed with only one heart which lasts us as long as we live. Alternatively, we live till the heart lasts. In that sense the heart is the lifeline of human body. Anatomically, it is a vital organ that supplies blood to the whole body. Symbolically, it is equated with the most powerful emotions of the human soul — that is love as well as with instinct, interest and deep feelings. Hence, it won’t be wrong to say that the heart rules our life. According to the law of spirituality, everything in this material world grows old, decays and gets assimilated into its original elemental form. Similarly everything in nature is getting recycled as energy is in constant flux. So, as souls we all get a new body in every birth. However, the elements that constitute a body are the same old matter. In that sense everything in the world is old material packaged as new. Hence with every consecutive birth, we as souls get a recycled body and hence a recycled heart. We get a new body only when we first come down from the soul world, because we are pure and are entitled to get the best of the available resources at the time when we enter this world. We must not forget that there was a time when we all had a brand new heart. And that time was called ‘Golden Age’. Everyone was perfect and purest there and so everything they had, including their body, was also perfect. The heart was so robust and healthy that it supported the body for a long and healthy life. However, today we all live in total contrast of golden age — that is Iron Age. There is hardly any human being today who is free from any physical ailment. Be it wealthy and poor, all are suffering from some or the other diseases, linked to unhealthy lifestyle and ecological degradation. Everyone’s mind is beset with weak and negative thoughts which are the biggest hindrance for living a healthy and happy life. Throughout our life we never understand that the root cause of all the diseases is our wrong actions. It’s a proven fact that we get punished for our wrong deeds. All the diseases have their origin in wrong thoughts and actions. Today, medical science has accepted that along with a healthy lifestyle, meditation too can promote a healthy heart, as it helps in regulating heart’s functioning by controlling negative thoughts that induce stress-related hormones in the body leading to harmful effects. By purifying the soul of bad sanskars (personality traits) like anger, fear, hatred and ego, it cures the root cause of disease and leads to holistic healing. Therefore, in order to have a healthy heart, apart from healthy lifestyle, it is essential to be a good-hearted person and to feed the mind with a healthy diet of pure thoughts and feelings.

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