Healings
take place on many levels. Rama was certainly a Master of the most
simple kind of physical healing, where he could help someone with
a medical problem. Ordinarily he provided such help in a very low-key
manner; someone would mention a problem, perhaps provide him with
a photograph, he might ask a question about the person's physician
or whatever, and then nothing more would happen in the physical. Yet
soon the patient would begin an unexpected--sometimes miraculous--recovery.
With Rama gone, we still have him available to provide such physical
healings. One technique that does work, though, is to focus on the
heart center, and then to imagine golden, loving light flowing from
the heart center to the part of the body which is hurting, or to the
person (if it is someone else) who is hurting. What Rama really specialized
in, though, was a much more subtle kind of healing, the healing of
someone's aura.
All physical illnesses are manifestations of illnesses in the subtle
body, and until subtle healing takes place, the physical healing is
likely to be very superficial. The best way to seek out healing in
this way is to remain focused on Enlightenment, and on Rama and the
Sangha of Rama's surviving students. Anger is very damaging to the
subtle body and must be let go of if there is to be any healing. Carrying
grudges is even more damaging. The opposites are also damaging--allowing
others to focus bad energy on us or to be angry at us. If someone
has that type of energy, the best thing to do--for their healing and
your--is to cut them out of your life.
Having said this, I have to confess that the term "healing" is not
one I would use too much in my own teaching. It implies that we are
now something less than perfection and through "healing" we will become
perfect in the future. I prefer to recommend that people think of
themselves as perfect right here and now--not in the egotistical sense
of expecting the universe to conform to their desires, but in the
enlightened sense of accepting all that happens, even illness, as
part of that perfection. When you do that, there tends to be--surprise,
surprise--less physical illness almost as a side effect. So if Rama
was so impeccable at healing, why did he himself only get forty-eight
years on this planet? Partly because of the energy that he was taking
on from healing others, of course, but mainly the answer is that the
physical body only gets a certain amount of time before it wears out.
At some point, your time will come--and so will that of those you
love--and it must be accepted gracefully when that happens. Healing
at the subtle, and especially the causal, levels tends to persist
from lifetime to lifetime. So when the universe makes clear to you
that your physical time has come, best to focus on karmic healings--healings
of relationships--during your remaining time when the physical body's
death is imminent. And since everyone's time is limited, that really
applies to everyone.
