Health Is Immoral? ( Body Dharma ) - by Osho

Priests are afraid of health because health is immoral in their eyes. You may or may not have heard of one of the thinkers of this century, a German thinker, very famous in his day — Count Keyserling. He was thought to be a great religious philosopher and he wrote in his diary: Health is the most immoral thing.



Because health is energy, and energy is delight, energy is enjoyment, energy is love, energy is sex, energy is everything that is natural.


Destroy the energy, make it feeble and dim. Hence so many fasts — just to destroy the energy, just to prevent so much energy from arising that it starts overflowing.

An ill person needs sex, a healthy person loves, and love is a totally different thing. And when two healthy persons meet, health is multiplied. Then they can become helpers to each other for the ultimate. They can go together for the ultimate, helping each other. But the need disappears. It is no more a need, it is no more a dependence.

In the West this is happening too much because something very basic is being misunderstood. People think that relationships are for when they are happy, good. When something goes wrong — even a physical illness — then why bother? Find another woman, another man — this seems very inhuman. If this attitude remains, love cannot grow. Then whatsoever you call love is nothing but sex, because love means that you care for the person in health, in illness. You care for the person. When the person is loving — and sometimes the person is not loving — then too you care. You care for the person and you accept all summers and winters. You accept everything that is in the person. Health is there, illness is there, old age is going to be there, youth is there, anger is there, hatred is there — everything is possible.

For example, if a man lived his whole life obsessed with sex, if he knew nothing beyond sex, if sex was all he lived for — he earned wealth to enjoy sex, he went after a high position in the pursuit of sex, he wanted to have good health so that he could indulge more into sex — if sex was the most predominant center functioning in his life, then that is where the entire energy will converge at the moment of death.


Then his new journey will begin from the sex center.


Why? — Because his next birth will be an ongoing journey of the same sex-obsessed center. This man’s consciousness will gather at the sex center in the dying moments, and that is the point where his life will come to an end. His life energy will leave through his genitalia. Had this man lived through a different center, the energy would have concentrated and left from that center.