At these words of Vasistha, Rama interposed and
said: „Please enlighten me as to the origin and
destruction of mental disease‟. In answer to this
Vasishta thus continued: „The pains that afflict the
body are called the secondary diseases, whilst the
Vasanas that affect the mind are termed mental (or
primary) diseases. We have reached our present
state through the absence of the transcendental
Jnana, the want of mastery over our organs and the
perpetual growth of desires and egoism in the
mind. And our delusion becomes intensified in us
by forgetfulness of the degradation of our state
through such causes. With the concretion of such
delusion, the mental disease also setting in
congeals in us like the plenteous snows of winter.
Then when the intense desires of a person begin to
manifest themselves externally and the Ajnana in
him preponderates, he performs fearful karmas
and these in their turn breed bodily diseases.
Again, the body is further subject to diseases
through such actions as the eating of unwholesome
food,
living in unhealthy countries, and doing
things at unseasonable hours, injuries inflicted,
association with the wicked, longing after
improper things, evil desires, bad thoughts, the
distension and contraction of the orifices of the
Nadis in the joints, etc., and the interrupted flow of
the beneficial Pranas throughout the body these
cause the body to shrink away. Then these blossom
in the form of diseases in the body, waxing and
waning- like the floods in a river during the long
seasons of autumn and winter. The body attracts to
itself effects according to the nature of its countless
affinities good or bad, whether in previous births
or in the present one. Thus do we see that diseases,
primary and secondary arise through the five-fold
Bhutas (elements).
Now listen, O Rama, as to the manner in which the
two forms of disease, primary and
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