Kenopanishad
"If you think 'I know this reality,' then you know little of it, so think about this reality."
One of the most powerful truths in healthcare today is we, as an industry, do not know what health is. It's not something we look into or hold as an ideal. One reason for that is it's not easy to figure out what health is! The World Health Organization has stated that "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." But what is that well-being? What characterizes it? How do we reach it? How do we know? Not being able to answer these questions, healthcare has essentially let the topic go and focused on disease mitigation.
But here is a student for whom dis-ease mitigation is woefully insufficient and unacceptable. The student's sights are set far, far higher on healing of the highest order and health in its pristine nature. Again, the teacher knows the pitfalls that await such an aspirant and is pre-empting a fall by revealing a great secret hidden in the form of a common admonition. We might have heard similar admonitions from our friends, teachers, or parents at some point. "You think you know, but you don't." "What do you really know?" Depending on how it's said, the words can sting, but here the teacher is providing essential, loving guidance to a student thirsting for truth and health in its deepest sense.
To think the thought, "I know this reality," one has to be present in the individual form. It is the individual identity known as "I" that says I know this reality. Reality doesn't know reality. Reality is reality. The very fact that an individual can say "I know this reality" renders the statement false.
It has been clarified before that the health within is not just mine or yours, but it is wholeness itself, infinite, free, and democratized for all. Surely we can use loose language here and there, but here the teacher is course correcting the student to ensure crystal clarity:
"If you, the individual, think you know that, the reality of health as an object, then you don't know it. The stage where you are coming from is insufficient to contain that experience. Let go of the stage, and you know it not as an object but as your nature. There is no room for thought here."
In our superconscious nature of health as it ever is, thought cannot enter, because thought is but an infinitesimal modification of health. Every thought we have is an attempt to reach back home to our state of health. The thought may be about personal life, professional life, good things, bad things, or everything in between, but at some level, at its roots, it is an attempt to retrace our steps to health and wholeness. When thought arrives at that threshold, it drops itself off because the light of health is so intense that its modifications cannot enter. They are alchemized unto their true nature. Be not confused into thinking this is just philosophical fancy or pure spiritual mysticism. The shift into different states of consciousness has immediate effects on mind and body, because where our nature goes, all of what we are follows.
Therefore, says the teacher, think on this reality. By thinking, what is meant is to rest your attention on this, meditate on this, know this is possible, and stay with the yearning for health. In doing so, thought will come close enough to your infinite nature to be absorbed, reconciled, and integrated.
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