Quotes from Susila Budhi Dharma about Health
Susila Budhi Dharma, chapter 8 KINANTHI
5 In this respect your body is like a house that has begun to be repaired and rebuilt as well as possible, in accordance with its outer characteristics, to enable you eventually to be truly conscious of the real status of a human being. 6 By this means, if you meet no further obstructions, you will become healthy outwardly and inwardly.
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Susila Budhi Dharma, chapter 16 SINOM
37 Moreover, in order to prevent you getting the wrong idea, you need to realize that in the latihan a person often feels as if they are suffering from an illness. And the nature of the illness felt in the latihan may not even take the form of just one or two symptoms, but sometimes of many different kinds, because they keep changing.
38 The reason why people feel this way is that in the past, before doing the latihan, they had suffered a lot of ill health, and although by the time they started the latihan they appeared to have recovered, traces of their illnesses still remained within them. So, during the latihan they feel the way they used to. But although they feel their old illness again, it is not accompanied by any suffering; rather, it is by this means that the traces of their illness disappear, and their inner feeling becomes truly healthy and clean once again.
39 That is why they do not need to worry about what they have felt in the latihan. Rather they should give praise and thanks for the mercy of God, because through this experience their body is able to become healthy again and their inner feeling clean and clear. They can then become active, and work in the sphere suitable to their soul.
40 So the true nature of their latihan is like a well-spring, from which the inner feeling draws purity instead of dirt, faults and illness. To those actually suffering from an illness this is something they would never guess at nor imagine, for by a means that seems so simple their body and inner feeling are cured and restored to health. But do not forget that they too, like their fellows mentioned earlier, will have feelings of illness during the latihan; in fact rather more, because of course they really are ill.