#84 Health

The story of Jesus according to the Christian tradition was that he taught until he was 33 years old, and then he was sentenced to be crucified by the Romans. And they in fact made him carry his own cross and then crucified him. And he died on the cross. And in that death he healed the world. Now, that’s a very interesting concept. The man considered the son of God by the Christians passed from this world no different than any other man. And that passing had an effect quite other than passing. That passing healed the population of the world who took on the understanding of what he did and how he meant it. Now, that didn’t stop people from passing, but it healed them of something else. It healed them of their burdens. It healed them of their sins. It healed them of their impurities. It healed them of their connection to the world.

Now, Jesus did not have a connection to the world. He was already healed from that. But he went through the agony that he went through on behalf of the rest of the world. It says something about agony and the fact that we have to go through some of that. But it also puts in perspective what healing actually means. Healing is the healing of the inner part of us. Healing is doing away with the diseases of the heart. Healing is resurrecting the qualities that belong to Allah. And Allah is the ultimate healthy One. Allah is the One without sickness, without death. And to join that place of no sickness and no death, we need to be healed, healed of our attachments to the world.