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The Healthy Young Man

A young man went to a doctor for a check-up.

The doctor asked: “How are you doing?”

Man: “Very well, doctor. I am healthy for 23 hours and 36 minutes in a day.”

Doctor: “Sorry, I didn’t quite understand…”

Man: “I seem to have some sort of an infection. I cough out blood for almost 1 minute every hour. Besides these 24 minutes of coughing every day, I am perfectly healthy.”


The “happiness” we experience from worldly pursuits is similar to this young man’s idea of health – the temporary absence of suffering.

Suffering is only a symptom.

To get the actual disease diagnosed, contact a specialist doctor.

“आत्मभ्रांति सम रोग नहीं, सद्गुरु वैद्य सुजान”
(Only a Sadguru can cure the deadliest disease – delusion about one’s true nature)
Shrimad Rajchandraji, Shri Atmasiddhi Shastra (Verse 129)


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2 Comments

  1. Thank you Sri Guru for being our Family Doctor and your regular check-ups (Satsangs) and medicine (dhyan) help us heal our sickness (परिभ्रमण का दुख).

    अहो उपकार श्रीगुरू!
    अहो उपकार श्रीगुरू!
    अहो उपकार श्रीगुरू!

  2. Thank you Sri Guru. I am very happy to get this spiritual nourishment after joining this spiritual group recently.

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