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YOGA OF SERVICE
the Self. Without good health you cannot achieve anything Without good health you cannot perform any service of Nishkamya Karma Yoga. Without good health you cannot do Asanas and Pranayama. That is the reason why scriptures declare that this body is a boat to cross the ocean of Samsara, an instrument for doing virtuous deeds and attaining Moksha. That is the reason why, in Charaka Samhita you will find. Dharmartha Kamamokshanam Arogyam moolam uttamam-health is the best thing in this world.
An aspirant should be free from Adhi and Vyadhi (diseases of the mind and the body), if he wants to do Karma Yoga and attain knowledge of the Self. According to the science of Yoga all physical diseases take their origin in the diseases of the mind, from an unhealthy state of mind The Western psychologists also corroborate this fact They say that the diseases of the body are attributable to hatred, anger, worry, depression, etc, which corrode the mind and react on the body and bring about various physical diseases by destroying the cells of the body.
A student of Karma Yoga should have an elementary knowledge of Raja Yoga, psychology, Ayurveda, physiology, family medicine, hygiene, Sankhya and Vedanta. Then he will be able to turn out more real work easily He can have a knowledge of the laws of the mind, also the nature, habits and ways of the mind. He will be in a position to keep a calm and
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