Stanzas 4-8 of the Metta Sutta say: "Whatsoever living beings there are; feeble or strong, may all beings, without exception, be happy minded. Let not one deceive another nor despise any person whatsoever in any place. In anger or ill-will, let him not wish any harm to another. Just as a mother would protect her only child at the risk of her own life, even so let him cultivate a boundless heart towards all beings. Let thoughts of boundless love pervade the whole world; above, below and across without any obstruction, without any hatred, without any enmity."
Several accounts illustrate the fact that by showing love and kindness, or simply by exuding thoughts of love and compassion, the violent natured can be made to become calm. The Buddha calmed the dreaded robber Angulimal and a mad elephant called Nalagiri by meditation of loving kindness. A German baroness Else Buchcholz, who became a Buddhist nun in 1919, tamed a leopard and a wild elephant in the jungles of Sri Lanka by radiating energy of loving kindness towards them.
Metta Bhavna is also practised to purify our mind of defilements like anger, jealousy, hatred and self-pity. We cannot stop the suffering of the world. We can only stop it in our mind, because we know our minds and we generate anger, hatred, and jealousy in our own mind. The only way we can still our minds is by practising Metta Bhavna.
Western scientists have found that 80 per cent of our illnesses such as rash, diabetes, backache and heart attacks are due largely to defilements caused in the mind. Psychiatrists have found that though there is temporary relief for these illnesses through medication, they recur because the cause remains within our minds.
Frequent anger and hatred produce a chemical which reduces our immunity to illnesses. When we lose our kind thoughts and develop anger and hatred, immunity falls. Due to frequent negative thoughts the mucus membrane in the stomach dries up, hormones are activated and excess pepsin enzyme is released into the stomach.
The result? Ulcers.
Our brain is hardly two per cent of our body size. But it uses 20 per cent of oxygen. Negative emotions have been found to use up more blood and frequent anger and hatred cause psychological ageing. Practice of meditation of loving-kindness can work wonders. British scientists have proved that meditation for loving kindness restores the chemical balance in the body and even cholesterol levels fall.
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ALLAH MALIK!
Sai baba let your holy lotus feet be our sole refuge.OMSAIRAM