Disease of worldliness. (Glossary for the Vahinis)

For some aliments, medicines are prescribed for external application while for others; they are given for internal use. But, for this universal ailment of Bhava-roga, the cycle of birth and death, Shravana and Kirtana and other medicines are prescribed, for external and internal use. One has to utter as well as hear the Lord’s name. An aspirant might win God’s grace and the Guru’s grace and the grace of the devotees of the Lord. ‘But all this grace would be of no avail if he does not secure also another grace, the grace of his own inner consciousness. (Prema Vahini, p. 19)

Once you cultivate devotion, you develop the capacity to sacrifice yourself. You expand in love. Then everything that is necessary will be added on to you. Love is the very life breath of a human being. Without love you cannot live. Truly, you love only for the sake of the Atma, your very self, not for the sake of others. But this sacred love for the self has been diverted towards the body. Everywhere in the world we find this disease of Bhava-roga, the disease of identification with the body. (DBG, p. 28)

Students are afflicted by Bhava-roga today, i.e. they are exceedingly attached to this physical world. There are three categories of diseased people. They are:

1. People who take the medicine for the disease but do not observe the necessary diet prescribed for it.
2. People who follow the diet control but avoid taking medicine.
3. People who take medicine and also follow diet control.

Once you cultivate devotion, you develop the capacity to sacrifice yourself. You expand in Love. Then everything that is necessary will be added on to you. Love is the very life breath of a human being. Without love you cannot live. Truly, you love only for the sake of the Atma your very self-not for the sake of others. But this sacred love for the self had been diverted towards the body. Everywhere in the world we find this disease of Bhava-roga, the disease of identification with the body. I am the medicine, and My command is the diet control. (M, pp. 266-267)