Holistic healing as an aid to spiritual life.

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TO TAKE THIS DISCUSSION OF SPIRITUAL ADVANCEMENT

THROUGH HOLISTIC HEALING A STEP OR TWO FURTHER, WE

WILL HAVE TO GO BEYOND OUR MIND AND ITS CONSCIOUS

KNOWLEDGE OF ALL SCIENCES KNOWN TO MAN, I QUOTE FROM

THE HOLY MOTHER OF ARVINDO ASHRAM, PONDICHERRY:

 

"INSTINCT: CONSCIOUSNESS OF NATURE (Mother India, May

2005, page 446):

 

"The Mother, who was the collaboratrix of Sri

Aurobindo in his supramental yoga has explained the

why and how of instinct in nature.

 

"Nature is conscious of its action, but this is not an

individual consciousness. There is an instinct of the

species. Some have said that there were even "spirits

of the species", conscious beings for each species.

Instinct depends on the way Nature works, and Nature

is a conscious force which knows what it wants, does

it in its own way, knowing where it is going and its

roads: it itself chooses them. For man, this appears

incoherent, for his own consciousness is too narrow

(he can't see the whole well enough; when one sees

only the small details of things or little fragments,

one can't understand at all), but Nature has a plan,

it has a conscious will, it is altogether a conscious

identity - it can't be called a being, forit is not in

the same proportion. When we speak of a being with our

human consciousness, we immediately imagine a human

being, perhaps a little larger or much larger. but

still functioning always in the same way. That is why

I don't call it a being, but it is a conscious entity,

a conscious will doing things consciously,

deliberately and having formidable forces at its

disposal. Animals have much more perfect senses than

those of men. I challenge you to track a man as a dog

does, for instance.

 

"This means that in the curve or rather the spiral of

evolution, animals (and more so those we call "higher

animals, because they resemble us more closely) are

governed by the spirit of the species which is a

highly conscious consciousness. Bees, ants, obey this

spirit of the species which is of quite a special

quality. And what is called "instinct" in animals is

simply obedience to the spirit of the species which

always knows what ought and ought not to be done.

There are so many examples. You put a cow in a meadow;

it roams around, sniffs and suddenly puts out its

tongue and snatches a blade of grass. Then it wanders

about again, sniffs and gets another tuft of grass,

and so it goes on. Has anyone known a cow under these

conditions eating poisonous grass? But shut this poor

animal up in a cow shed, gather and put some grass

before it and the poor creature which has lost its

instinct because it now obeys man (excue me), eats the

poisonous grass along with the rest of it...And these

unfortunate animals like all animals, have a

respect...for the superiority of man--if he puts

poisonous grass before the cow and tells it to eat, it

eats it! But left to itself, that is, without anything

interfering between it and the spirit of the species,

it would never do so.

 

My notes: That is how when the dairy magnates of

Europe started feeding leftovers from the slaughter

houses to the poor milch cattle out of greed for

moolah, they gave rise to the 'mad cow disease'.

 

In the process of evolution from animal to man, this

wonderful gift of intuition has been lost. But as Sri

Aurobindo has pointed out, man has the potential of

access to intuition, and the evolutionary future of

humanity is "mind fulfilling itself in the

supramental", which is the highest possible state of

knowledge.

 

Hence, it is a great pleasure and satisfaction to me

personally that the exercises as prescribed for

various spinal and other aches and pains under ATBSNR

technique, when put into practice "instinctively" as

explained at the website and through many other

articles, taking a cue or two from birds and animals

(remember reference to the doglike or catlike

stretches and the intermittent tail twitching of the

sparrows and what not) , are giving so many benefits

of all round good health with wellness and bliss,

simultaneously improving meditation to feel an inkling

of self-realisation for those who are some what

attuned spiritually.

 

S. M. Acharya <smacharya (AT) (DOT) co.uk>

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This is a wonderful input Acharyaji.

Around two decades ago when I first read The Mothers views on health I found it strange that she viewed disease too as the work of spirits. I am yet to understand the full implications but I suppose each acute disease may have a spirit of its own. That is in fact what The Mother says.

This was known in the Vedic times also where there were both Devatas and Apadevatas. The Apadevatas caused disease and accidents. Therefore various deities were identified for various ailments and pujas were performed.

This may explain the "morbid disease matter" that Hahnemann refers to when explaining disease. This disease matter is not the germs or viruses but beyond them, like a mischievous energy.

For accidents too The Holy Mother blames the spirits. Therefore she asked her devotees not to loiter in the accident site. That spirits can cause accidents is a belief that persists. We also see many places which are very accident prone for reasons unknown.

I think we have to rename spirits and goblins as electrons or photons so that we do not sound superstitous !! It is strange is it not that science discovers energy and it is accepted, our ancestors knew about spirits and are maligned.

Regards,

Jagannath.

SM Acharya <smacharya wrote:

>

> TO TAKE THIS DISCUSSION OF SPIRITUAL ADVANCEMENT

> THROUGH HOLISTIC HEALING A STEP OR TWO FURTHER, WE

> WILL HAVE TO GO BEYOND OUR MIND AND ITS CONSCIOUS

> KNOWLEDGE OF ALL SCIENCES KNOWN TO MAN, I QUOTE FROM

> THE HOLY MOTHER OF ARVINDO ASHRAM, PONDICHERRY:

>

> "INSTINCT: CONSCIOUSNESS OF NATURE (Mother India, May

> 2005, page 446):

[Guest guest]

ayurveda, Jagannath Chatterjee

<jagchat01 wrote:

>

> This is a wonderful input Acharyaji.

>

> Around two decades ago when I first read The Mothers views on

health I found it strange that she viewed disease too as the work of

spirits. I am yet to understand the full implications but I suppose

each acute disease may have a spirit of its own. That is in fact

what The Mother says.

>

> This was known in the Vedic times also where there were both

Devatas and Apadevatas. The Apadevatas caused disease and accidents.

Therefore various deities were identified for various ailments and

pujas were performed.

>

> This may explain the "morbid disease matter" that Hahnemann

refers to when explaining disease. This disease matter is not the

germs or viruses but beyond them, like a mischievous energy.

 

 

 

 

Throughout history people have described the several selves - there

is the 'true' self the 'original' self - but most of these

descriptions are of the ego (Ahamkara)and it's various aspects.

Example the disease process has it's own persona - the self we are

as we experience ourselves with disease and from the perspective of

the disease - our personality is one way with disease and another

way when free of disease - the persona that has the disease is a

complicated pattern in human physiology and psychology - it has it's

own needs and imperatives - but most importantly in the context we

are talking about here - we have identified 'self' from the disease

perspective - therefore when healing disease it is not just

necessary to correct the imbalance in the Dosha's it is necessary to

destroy the old diseased personality - otherwise the disease

continually reforms itself and benefits from past therapy can be

lost or reversed by the old persona which does not want to go - it

keeps reasserting itself. It is the elimination of this false self -

the diseased self - which is refered to as death of ego - all must

go through this death to be healed and achieve Rasayana -

unfortunately many false selves are very powerful and refuse to

leave - this is why the Mother and others called as spirits - these

false personas are like being haunted by ghosts - a presence that

interferes with our recovery from disease - these 'spirits' are

nothing but our own false selves. It is like a habit and although we

may no longer manifest the original states - the habit keeps kicking

in - it is a part of our endogenous habit patterns - they become sub-

conscious patterns of self defintion.

 

This is called many things -

 

Ego - The 'I' - a description or feeling of self as opposed to the

whole self.

The trance - The way the mind habitually redefines itself in limited

terms - it is a habit of self refferal regardless of changing

circumstances.

False self - Another term for Ego

Small ego - That part of ego which has created 'personality' - the

limited or projected self'

Fixation or fascination - Same meaning as trance.

The shadow - the ego as a limited refelection of 'true self'

Spirit or spirits - The alternative or false persona - some have

many persona's - as the disease has gone through many

transformations, steps, and levels over time and each phase may have

their own persona or projection - this is why personality often

seems in conflict with itself - it is.

The 'errors'or 'sins' - The Dosha's - those patterens of false and

errouneous life which have created the disease - as each Dosha

dominates because of pathology then we will experience and define

ourselves according to the dominant dosha - Vata might equal fear -

Pitta might equal anger - Kapha might equal dullness - each of these

states create another sense of 'self' - these feelings do not simply

disapear they remain in the mind as 'parts' or 'aspects' of self

definition.

 

ETC.

 

Hahnemann called the levels of disease that creates these false

selves as Miasms - These are the major Miasms but we might have many

individual Miasms which come from our interaction with the world -

as example diseases like Syphilis run not as an infectious disease

but as a 'taint' that is carried from generation to generation -

many things cause these taints. Many viral infections cause life

time complications years after the infectious process resolves

itself.

 

1 - The universal Miasm - that essential disease process which we

share with all humanity - it is often referred to as 'Alienation

from God' - it is the essential dual nature of life - the conflict

between self and other.

 

2 - The cultural Miasm - this creates the social diseases that most

suffer from who are born into a particular culture - the Indian's

have different cultural disease patterns from say English or

Japanese - most of this has to do with culturaal habits like eating

certain foods - or social restrictions which inhibit natural

patterns by supplanting false cultural assumptions. All cultures

have their illusions and the individuals in a particular cultural

context have to suffer because of this and we often feel in conflict

from our own needs and desires as opposed to cultural needs. Those

who's Prakriti is contrary to the cultural Prakriti they live in

will often feel at conflict within themselves and at conflict with

society. Individuals are often defined with pathology when in

reality it is simple cultural prejudice.

 

3 - The family Miasm - these are the disease patterns that run in

our family - from mother and father side - our genetic mix - but it

also includes the family patterns - cooking styles of the home - the

cook - the relationship between the members of the family - all of

this creates patterns that may or may not be pathological.

 

4 - The personal Miasm - that absoutely personal pattern we are born

with that makes us different from our mother and father and our

siblings. We are unique and no other person has the same body or

life that we do - therfore no matter how much we are alike still our

diseases will manifest in very personal ways according to our

personal Prakriti.