Bapak Talks & Quotes of Health

Bapak's Talk: "The real fruit of the latihan" Herk-de-Stad, Belgium, July 16, 1977

For example, supposing we set up an enterprise in the field of music, let's say we have a band or something like that where we play a musical instrument. Through following and receiving the guidance that we get from the power of God we will be able gradually to feel and to be guided how to make a sound with our instrument of such quality that, in the one who hears it, it will awaken a feeling or a wish to worship. God Almighty, and a feeling of happiness.

There is an old story in this connection which relates that once there was a king who had a daughter, and this daughter happened to be sick, very seriously sick. The king had already called many, many doctors to try and cure her, and always they failed. Every…

From talk in The Hague, May 12, 1967

"Suppose you are cooking – no matter what it is that you are cooking – when your hands move, it is as if you are guided. The result is that the dishes you produce are really delicious; their taste is unequalled. Conversely, if you are cooking without your hand being guided, if you are cooking with your own will, even some times using recipes where you look up how to cook this and that, the dishes you produce will not taste delicious at all.

Bapak is not criticising those who have not yet found the way to cook delicious food. It is just an illustration. Once you have been able to receive this, it can happen that you take a piece of bread and butter it and add nothing else: ‘Here, John,’ – or whatever your husband is called – ‘Eat this.’

Bapak talks about reading with movement that can heal

San Francisco 13 September 1963

It is the same for those of you who like to read the Bible; once your latihan has progressed a long way, when you read the Bible you will certainly not stay immobile or stay still. You are sure to move. This shows that what is written in the Bible is alive. As Bapak demonstrated in the testing, there is a cross within your inner self. So if you read the Bible and you find: ‘Why is this happening? Why do I go like this when I’m reading?’ That means it is alive; that is the working of the living cross within the human self. That will …

Bapak talks about health benefits of fasting

"Clearly then, brothers and sisters, if the fast is carried out it is very fruitful. Ailing people gradually cease to be unwell gradually grow resistant to illness. People with some tendency to catch colds lose it. That is through the fast. People who usually keep coughing, but then fast, stop doing so.

So if you have a cough and would like it to stop, try fasting. If you are not strong enough to fast until five, fast until four, until three, two, one, twelve o'clock. If you cannot yet keep a fast going until twelve, well, just go on eating.

Thus it is necessary for you to do prihatin."

Bapak 74CDK14 (From Pewarta Vol. XII No.2 August 1975)