Bapak Talks & Quotes of Health

The effect of the forces influencing the human inner feeling is to make a person follow the wishes of those forces whether they want to or not. The result is that they eventually fall into a state of (inner) poverty, which they experience as an illness, or as a mental or emotional disturbance. So, it's clear that the cause of the illnesses from which people suffer is the low forces taking the wrong role within them, exerting power over them, and making them do things that are not in accord with their true human individuality.

Bapak

17 August 1959

Coombe Springs

59 CSP 7

Bapak talks about breathing

#1 Lisbon 15 May 1981

"Bernafas dengan jiwa berarti membikin - membuat - sehat diri saudara"

"Breathing with jiwa makes your self healthy"

Bapak

Recording: 81LIS01 time 1:10:04

"As for any illness you may be suffering from, perhaps some of you are wondering, "Could illnesses I suffer from be taken away from me and from my feelings through this worship, through this Subud latihan?" Bapak would like to explain that the purpose and aim in our worship, in our Subud latihan, is our worship of the One God who created us. As for any illness we might have, because we worship God without being influenced by our thinking mind, heart and desires, it means that our inner feeling is awakened, and of course, this awakening of the inner feeling will remove obstructions in all the various parts of our being. So there is a good probability that illnesses we have been suffering from may be cured and disappear from our inner feeling, and that we may be restored to the state of good health we had before. …

"What Bapak calls a perfect human being is one with the nature of a creature that knows the true life and knows, too, the life of other natures, and which always feels love, and loves and assists anyone in need, or those who are ill, or in need of care.

Bapak

Coombe Springs

21 July 1957

"Start with the physical" The achievement of a healthy soul and its ultimate perfection begins with improving physical health. (Bapak's talk London 11 Aug. 1959)