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Man with a miraculous healing touch

Online edition of India's National Newspaper - The Hindu

Tuesday, August 08, 2000

 

By Vijaykumar Patil

 

BELGAUM, AUG. 7. Not drugs -- its miraculously the healing touch of

Mr. Mohan Joshi that provides wonderful solution to several chronic

health problems that have found no permanent remedy in modern health

sciences.

 

"It has come naturally to me, but I do not have any scientific

explanation as to how it works, I only know that I carry within me a

strong healing power which I use in curing various chronic diseases,"

is how Mr. Joshi explains this almost supernatural phenomenon. He

quotes a reputed gynaecologist from Mumbai who had said that there

are a few individuals, who carry in them an additional "charge" (the

energy or power) that can be used for healing purposes.

 

The 50-year-old unpretentious Mr. Joshi from Akola has made the

entire country his home. He started experimenting with his spiritual

powers 18-years ago. He is an arts graduate and a former bank

employee and has now dedicated himself to his new avocation, not for

money or fame, but to use his powers to serve the needy for no

selfish gain.

 

It all started when an astrologer told him that he had a rare power

which he could use for healing and giving succor to the people

suffering from various physical and psychological ailments. He did

not believe the astrologer and was afraid of being ridiculed. Yet,

when he revealed this jocularly to a close friend who had complained

of pain, and as (he thought) there was no harm involved in the

process, his friend asked him to try and cure him with his powers.

The pain was caused apparently by abnormal growth of the ganglia. The

maiden experiment worked miraculously, and his friend had no more

pain. After 11 months, his friend said the ganglion growth had

diminished.

 

Thereafter, he started trying his powers on other patients free of

cost. Every time his confidence increased. So much so that he now has

no hesitation to call himself a "spiritual healer" with powers to

cure diseases for which modern science is no help.

 

Quoting from Atharva Veda, Mr. Joshi says India is the origin of

spiritual powers which can be used to heal or cure diseases by

applying the fingertips on the body of the patient. It can be applied

even while other systems of therapy are being used. "Healing is of

divine origin and transcends from one person to another where the

healer is a medium through whom the care is passed to the patient in

whom receptivity is awakened, and his or her diseases are healed in

the process."

 

One can easily verify his claims. To make one feel the highly-

charged condition of the body, he can feel a considerable amount of

heat emitted from his hands even if he holds them at a distance from

one's face. If he places his palms on a person's back, he or she can

feel the "charge" transcend and traverse a circular path that

provides relief, at least, for a few moments initially. However, the

entire treatment is a process in itself which requires repeated

sittings.

 

He clarifies that there may not be spectacular or instant results

although dramatic changes can be experienced in just one sitting

spread over a few minutes. Improvement comes progressively in days,

weeks and sometimes months depending on the nature of the disease,

and also the receptivity of the patient. Changes for the better

involve two dimensions: Firstly, the specific malady for which

healing is sought and secondly, total wellbeing of the patient

spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically. Thus, the cure is

preventive in nature.

 

Not all patients are curable, yet the success rate is nearly 80 per

cent. To cite a few examples, the well-known industrialist

Mr.Dhirubhai Ambani, has benefited from him. The Major Irrigation

Minister, Mr. H.K.Patil, is another. Then there are many eminent

persons including the dramatist, Mr. Suresh Khare. Hew claims that so

far, he has treated more than one lakh patients throughout the

country, at least 80 per cent of them successfully. Healing is highly

effective in blood pressure, asthama, arthritis, sciatica, muscular

pain, slipped disc, spine disorders, swelling, paralysis,

neurological disorders, heart problems (he successfully treated a

young patient who had a hole in his heart), etc. It cannot work

against nature yet, one may help in seeking some relief but not a

cure. "Interestingly, people approach me as a last resort with

diseases or illness which I have never heard, still they stand

benefitted," he said.

 

The Faculty of Medical Studies, Medicina Alternativa Institute

affiliated to the Open International University for Complementary

Medicines conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris

Causa) in Colombo in December 1996.

 

"If you ask me, my own health problems have been automatically cured

when I started healing others. I do not have any bad habit, I do not

even eat "supari." In fact, I am a non-believer, but I know there are

powers beyond reasoning that work wonders it is for the scientists to

explain how the phenomenon of healing flows from one body to the

other."

 

"I do not know the cause and effect of healing; what I know is that

people are cured by my touch. I touch and pray and it works without

any diagnosis. I will co-operate with scientists if they also do

research on this subject."

 

He has makeshift clinics created by his patients, who have been

benefited and turned his wellwishers in different cities and towns

all over the country. He is not after money -- after all, he says, he

collects only Rs. 40 to Rs. 50 per sitting to meet the cost of

travel, lodging and boarding. As he comes from a good family and with

his son well-placed in the the United States, has never been short of

money. "I am advised by my spiritual guru to carry on the work

selflessly."

 

He visits Belgaum for two days a month (2491, Income Tax Colony,

Mahantesh Nagar, Belgaum. ph.No.0831/2454989.)