A healthy body is the best container for a healthy mind

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Spiritual health is preserved and promoted by attention to three Gunas (inherent tendencies): Satwa, Rajas and Tamas. Physical health is preserved and promoted by attention to three humours of the body; Vaata (wind), Pitta (bile) and Kapha (phlegm). The three humours must not get vitiated or unbalanced. A healthy body is the best container for a healthy mind. Illness makes the mind agitated and anxious. The material and the spiritual are the two pans of the balance. They have to be attended to, in equal measure, at least until a certain stage of progress is attained in spiritual development.