Pain - the child of resistance to the present moment🔗

On the emotional and mental level, pain is usually the result of some form of judgment. Pain is always born of resistance to the present moment. Every time you experience pain, it leaves behind a residue which becomes lodged in the body. By and by, this accumulated pain creates a negative energy field around you, which we call the 'pain body'. The 'pain body' is responsible for and controls most of our pain patterns.

Pain is always born of resistance to the present moment.

Research reveals that emotional imbalance can deeply disturb the physical body. For example, sexual repression can result in back pain, or the sense of shouldering too much responsibility can cause pain in the shoulder.

A real life incident:

In Calcutta there were two small ashrams whose presidents were not on good terms with each other.

One day a person of some authority arrived in one ashram and invited the president to join him in visiting the other ashram. The president was in distress. He could not refuse, but he didn't want to go either.

Suddenly the president developed a high fever which prevented him from leaving the place!

I saw this with my own eyes. As soon as the other person left, the temperature came back to normal again.

Haven't we all experienced 'Monday morning blues'? Even children display bodily symptoms of illness when forced to do what they don't want to do like going to school. This kind of illness is caused simply by un-ease, caused due to the mind and the body pulling you in opposite directions. This is what manifests itself as dis-ease.

The power of the mind over the senses

The other day, a handsome young man belonging to an orthodox family was brought to our healing center. His complaint was sudden blindness. His parents started weeping and told me that the boy was in excellent health, and had turned blind just a week earlier.

All medical tests revealed perfect vision, but he couldn't see! After scanning his energy, I asked to spend a few moments alone with him. As soon as he was allowed to talk to me in private, the boy poured out his troubles to me. He said that he was deeply in love with a girl, but had been forced by his parents to stop seeing her.

I immediately figured out the root cause of the problem. I asked the boy to procure a photograph of the girl, and spend the next three days meditating upon it continuously. His parents were taken aback at this unconventional solution, that too from a spiritual man!

But you will be amazed: the technique worked a wonder. In 3 days, the boy regained his vision perfectly. Why did this happen?

When the boy was compelled not to see what he most wanted to see, his subconscious mind decided not to see anything at all. His blindness was deeply psychological. What tremendous power the mind has over the senses!

In the Bhagavata Purana, a grand epic of Hindu mythology, it is mentioned that Krishna and Radha took birth within a few moments of each other. Radha was a normal baby in every way except that she wouldn't open her eyes.

A few days later, Radha's mother visited Krishna's house to see the baby Krishna. She took her newborn daughter with her. The moment Radha was brought to Krishna's presence, she opened her eyes and beheld Krishna before her!

Later in life, when questioned by a friend, Radha remarked, 'What else was there to see? It is for Krishna that I have taken birth. So I waited till I was taken to his presence to open my eyes.'

This may be only a tale, but it illustrates the tremendous power of the mind over the body.