Passage 9

In English

Attachment to the body is a kind of disease

Divine Love exists before birth, after birth and continues forever. No effort is made by men to understand this true and enduring love. Attachment to the body is a kind of disease which has to be treated by three kinds of remedies. One is observing dietary restrictions while taking the medicine. If diet regulations are not observed, the medicine alone will not cure the disease. Diet control without the medicine will be equally ineffective. Both diet control and medicine are equally necessary for curing the disease. With regard to the disease of attachment to the body, one has to abide by divine injunctions and practise love for the Divine to get rid of the ailment. Observing the Divine injunctions without love for God will not be efficacious. Equally, devotion without observance of the Lord's commands will be useless. Love is the medicine and God's injunctions are the diet restrictions. It is by the presence of both, that Divinity in man can be made to manifest itself.