शरीरमाद्यं खलु धर्मसाधनम् ।
Śarīram ādyaṃ khalu dharma-sādhanam.
The body is indeed the first instrument of dharma.
Chanakya was not a renunciant — he was a strategist. He understood that all goals, including spiritual ones, require a functioning vehicle. Health was not luxury; it was infrastructure. A sick minister advises poorly; a depleted leader decides badly.
What is your body currently telling you that your ambitions are overriding? Tiredness that becomes chronic is not a character test — it is data. Your capacity for everything you care about runs through this one physical system.
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