This is the body that you have got; this is the body that God has given to you. Use it... enjoy it! And if you start loving it, you will find it is changing, because if a person loves his body he starts taking care, and care implies everything…. Then you don't stuff it with unnecessary food, because you care. Then you don't starve it, because you care. You listen to its demands, you listen to its hints -- what it wants, when it wants.
When you care, when you love, you become attuned to the body, and the body automatically becomes okay. If you don't like the body, that will create the problem, Mm? because then by and by you will become indifferent to the body, negligent of the body, because who cares about the enemy? You will not look at it; you will avoid it. You will stop listening to its messages, and then you will hate it more.
And you are creating the whole problem. The body never creates any problem; it is the mind that creates problems. Now, this is an idea of the mind. No animal suffers from any idea about the body, no animal... not even the hippopotamus! Nobody suffers -- they are perfectly happy because no mind is there to create an idea; otherwise the hippopotamus will think 'Why am I like this?' There is no problem in it.
Just drop the ideal. Love your body -- this is your body, this is a gift from God. You have to enjoy it and you have to take care of it. When you take care, you exercise, you eat, you sleep. You take every care because this is your instrument, just like your car that you clean, that you listen to, to every hum -- to know whether something is going wrong -- mm? You take care even if a scratch comes on the body. Just take care of the body and it will be perfectly beautiful -- it is! It is such a beautiful mechanism, and so complex, and yet working so efficiently that for seventy years it goes on functioning. Whether you are asleep or awake, aware or unaware, it goes on functioning, and the functioning is so silent. Even without your caring it goes on functioning; it goes on doing service to you. One should be grateful to the body.
Just change your attitude and you will see that within six months your body has changed its form. It is almost like when you fall in love with a woman and you see: she immediately becomes beautiful. She may not have cared about her body up to this moment but when a man falls in love with her, she starts taking care. She stands before the mirror for hours... because somebody loves her!
The same happens: you love your body and you will see that your body has started changing. It is loved, it is taken care of, it is needed. It is a very delicate mechanism -- people use it very crudely, violently. Just change your attitude and see!
Just drop the ideal. Love your body -- this is your body, this is a gift from God. You have to enjoy it and you have to take care of it. When you take care, you exercise, you eat, you sleep. You take every care because this is your instrument, just like your car that you clean, that you listen to, to every hum -- to know whether something is going wrong -- mm? You take care even if a scratch comes on the body. Just take care of the body and it will be perfectly beautiful -- it is! It is such a beautiful mechanism, and so complex, and yet working so efficiently that for seventy years it goes on functioning. Whether you are asleep or awake, aware or unaware, it goes on functioning, and the functioning is so silent. Even without your caring it goes on functioning; it goes on doing service to you. One should be grateful to the body.
Just drop the ideal. Love your body -- this is your body, this is a gift from God. You have to enjoy it and you have to take care of it. When you take care, you exercise, you eat, you sleep. You take every care because this is your instrument, just like your car that you clean, that you listen to, to every hum -- to know whether something is going wrong -- mm? You take care even if a scratch comes on the body. Just take care of the body and it will be perfectly beautiful -- it is! It is such a beautiful mechanism, and so complex, and yet working so efficiently that for seventy years it goes on functioning. Whether you are asleep or awake, aware or unaware, it goes on functioning, and the functioning is so silent. Even without your caring it goes on functioning; it goes on doing service to you. One should be grateful to the body.
Love your body
العرض العادي
