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It is said, "Tehala sukha nirogi kaya." The first happiness in life is a healthy body. Nothing can be compared with a healthy body. This means the body, mind, intellect, and emotion are all at a balanced, healthy level. A healthy person is ever happy and can enjoy life. But the body is still known as the house of the vikāra. Vikāra means diseases; vikāra means those energies which are not acceptable and are constantly developing in this house, the body. This is physical as well as mental; mental vikāra is more dangerous than physical vikāra. You can also compare vikāra with pollution, and the most dangerous pollution is mental pollution. Therefore, in Āyurveda, it is said the second happiness is that you are prosperous or you have some wealth. In your house, you have all means of living, what you need, and if a guest comes, you can offer something to the guest. That's called artha, wealth or a little money. It is said, "My Lord, give me that in which my family can survive, that I am not starving, and if anyone comes to my house, they don't go hungry from my house." To give food to any hungry one, either animals or humans, is a very good deed, because food is the source of our life. The third happiness is that you have an obedient partner, meaning mutual understanding between husband and wife. Originally it is said only the wife is obedient, but what about men? It means the same thing, so a partner with mutual understanding and happiness. Also, the fourth happiness is santāna, that you have good children, obedient children, that you are able to educate them nicely. Every parent wishes that their children are healthy, happy, well-educated, and have a very good social position, and spiritual development. The fifth happiness is that you have your own milk cow. Happy are they who have their own cows, or goats, or sheep's milk. The milk from the dairy and milk directly from your own cow is as different as day and night. At that time, there was no question of dairy because there was no dairy system. And there was no question of organic vegetables and food because everything was organic. In the last 70 years, we spoiled our climate and began to develop more and more chemicals. And the sixth happiness is a good neighbor; the sixth happiness is to have a good neighbor. You should have a family-like relation with the neighbors, neighbors who always participate and are always standing beside you in happiness and unhappiness. That's why human society or civilization is developed to be supportive of each other. Your neighbor is like your family member, like you have three brothers and sisters, and all three brothers and sisters have different apartments, but they are your family members. So these are, according to Āyurveda and according to life situation, what means health. These are all the factors of your good health or bad health. Therefore, health cannot be compromised or compared with anything. So our first aim is to gain good health. The major part of our illnesses, any physical troubles and mental troubles, is from our stomach, and the root of the troubles is our svād indriya, the tongue. The taste; it's very hard to say no to the tongue and very hard to understand the stomach. Whatever goes in is a stomach problem, but the stomach is a very good one; it tries to digest everything. Sometimes it rejects and makes a strike, then you have diarrhea; when the idea is there, then the stomach is striking. So our svād indriya is guilty for many, many diseases. And we are the slave of our svādindriya, the taste. If we can master this, we will be more happy. Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Summer seminar