Mahabharata 18: Pain Of Mind Passeth To Body Poem by Aniruddha Pathak

The pain spinning apart from mind
Heats up the flesh, body to grind;
The way an iron rod red hot,
Dipped, heats up the water in pot.
____________________________________________
Here is the transliteration of the original verse:

mānasena hi duhkhenasharīram upa-tapyate |
ayah piņđena taptenakumbha-samstham iva udakam || vana 2-25 ||

This is what king Janak once said to pacify man's inner mind. He talked about mano-deha-duhkhābhyām, of bodily and mental (psycho-somatic)pains. Accordingly, bodily pains are caused by diseases, adverse circumstances, too much of strain, and by deprivation of things desired. The root cause of mental pain is infatuation/endearment and attachment. The world is virtually swept by these pains. This insight of the ancients on the body-mind link is noteworthy.