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examine yourself, which parts of the body experiencing some very high realities because
hurt you: your eyes, stomach, chest, your once you open your eyes everything vanishes.
joints, your back. Just take stock. But we
cannot stick only to the physical, we have to To me, Sri Aurobindo has said one formula
go beyond. So look at it in your daily life. In that is important — “All life is Yoga”. So,
your work, where does it hurt, where is the whatever comes in life, I have to discover
pain? Most of the time, overwork causes pain. Yoga there.
My experience — if I am expected to see more
patients, I always re-examine. Earlier, I used to Injury through family/relationships
see 100 patients a day. I suddenly realised that
I was injuring myself. So, recently I asked my So, injury can happen through work, and
hospital and I reduced it to 50. My staff came then your family; a wonderful thing, very
and said, “Sir, a lot of people are returning, essential, it provides a lot of fulfilment but
why are you saying no, earlier you used to see also gives a lot of pain. So, who injures you?
so many patients!” But, I said, “No, we have How much do they injure you? They injure
to stop.” Why? It is just a process of healing. you when they are alive, and they injure you
with the memories when they depart. And if
We have to experience where pain comes, you have seen that process of departing when
and we have to address that and heal it with somebody, your family member, leaves his
the power of consciousness. So, healing is body in front of you, then you realise that
for injury and injury is synonymous with pain, that injury. This is very difficult to heal.
pain and awareness; if you are aware of However when they are alive too, injury is
your pain that means you are injured. caused; injury is very common.
And we don’t say to ourselves that I have
to heal myself, we don’t say that it is an So injury is very common in your work,
injury, you are painful, life is painful. As in your family, in your body and in your
I said, I was seeing so many patients and mind in your relationships. Your heart is
I was not enjoying it, so I looked at why it essentially your relationship with another.
is so? Then I said no, my body is getting And all of us have relations which we cannot
sad. I asked my body, and it felt it needed leave, which we cannot do away with and,
a different pace. So, I modified myself. at regular intervals, they injure us. They
may not be your immediate family but they
So you have to ask yourself: how much work are very close to you. They are part of your
are you doing? Are you underworked or emotional family; you interact with them,
overworked? Either or both are painful. If you you cannot do without them and they
have nothing to do, again there is injury, you are a part of your being. And I am pretty
have a lot of things to do, again there is injury. sure that, at regular intervals, it must be
So that balance, that equilibrium, is the a pattern: they injure and again a lot of
catchword in health and healing. Harmony healing has to happen. In relationships, this
and equilibrium. This should be a part of injury repeats itself; there is a pattern in all
your daily life. The spiritual process is not close emotional relationships. And if you
about closing your eyes and meditating and don’t have close emotional relationships,

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