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     A healthy person is an individual who is free from sickness. It is strange to me to hear some religious scholars and journalists say that any religion which concentrates its energies on healing is not a high-grade religion because it stresses the importance of physical blessings. I think nothing can be as mistaken as this.
     Needless to say, when a person is born as a human being and lives as a member of society, nothing impedes his life more and causes greater suffering than sickness. As we take a general view of our society and carefully investigate the cause of people’s misfortunes and tragedies, we almost always find disease at their roots.
     Just as it is often said, “There is a woman behind every crime,” so we may say that there is always sickness behind a tragedy. Thus, there is no mistake in stating that in exact ratio to the increases in numbers of healthy people free from disease, there will be decreases in the numbers of unfortunate people. This is on individuals levels. From a national and social point of view, also, nothing causes as great a loss as sickness, for after all the cause of any negative state of affairs is disease.
     We speak of a world free from disease, poverty and conflict, which is our goal. However, if the problem of disease can be solved, the other two will automatically be solved. This is so obvious that it needs no lengthy explanation.
     When we speak of sickness we do not mean only physical illness, for mental sickness is one of the greatest problems of the world. Let us take an example of a war. Those who cause a war and those who prevent one are in completely opposite positions. Also, those who start a war and the people who are driven to fight in a war are also in different positions, of course. To sum up, so-called great individuals who try to provoke warfare are the ones to blame. When we investigate the real intention of such people I think we find that: Their desire is too strong to be satisfied easily with small successes such as ordinary people would feel quite happy about, because of their unusual ability and self-confidence; so, they begin to have inordinate ambitions. As we can see in the achievements of many so-called heroes and great men in history, things work out smoothly for them temporarily but end up in failure.
     In this way, while such individuals strive to realize their ambitions they sacrifice many people and so they are very cruel. They sacrifice innumerable lives and cause many people to become unfortunate. If they had ordinary mentality they would shudder at the thought of their great sins, but they are cool and undisturbed. This is a proof that even though they may be called great, they are mentally defective in some way; in other words, they are somehow mentally disturbed.
     Also, those who only interested in their own gains with little or no love for others, no compassion, who put their own interests above everything else are as they are because they have some defects in their minds. It is interesting to note that those who are not mentally normal always have some physical defects, too. This is what I have learned through my long-time experiences. Of course, there are people among the so-called heroes and evildoers who seem to be extremely healthy. This is because the toxins in their systems, of which they have accumulated a lot, are in very solidified condition.
     From the above-mentioned facts you will understand how important it is for human beings to be freed from sickness through whatever means they can use to achieve this goal, whether it is through religion, science, philosophy or education. But the only agent that can accomplish true, total and lasting healing is the Light of the Supreme God, with which I have been endowed.

“Kenkō wa Issai Nari” was first published on the first page of Eikō, Issue 182, November 12, 1952. “Kenkō wa Issai Nari” was reprinted in the anthology Igaku Kankei Goronbun Shū (Collected Essays on Medical Science) that did enjoy a limited circulation. Igaku Kankei Goronbun Shū contains no publication data, but internal evidence suggests that its editing stopped several months preceding Meishu-sama’s death. Furthermore, since the book lacks publication data, whether the volume had Meishu-sama’s imprimatur or not is unknown, so details concerning this volume are probably impossible to research. “Kenkō wa Issai Nari” has previously appeared in translation. Citation is given below for reference.