Monday, April 18, 2011

Road less travelled.

I am neither talking about Robert Frost’s poem nor of Scot Peck’s book in the same name. This is about a brave attempt by an ordinary man named AN (name changed for privacy)

AN was a chief priest (Melshanthi) in a famous temple in my native town of Trichur for a long time. I used to see him from my childhood, a humble and divine soul, spent most of his life in and around sanctum sanctorum of temples chanting mantras.

During one of my visit to native I met him in the temple and was surprised to see him very week .He has suddenly reduced weight and appeared as suffering from some grave illness. Divinity no more adored his face. My mother told me that he is recently diagnosed with cancer. She astonished why God mercilessly chooses people who serve him to experience all this pain and agony.

For several months he was running around various hospitals and doctors from Allopathy to Ayurveda. All these treatments and trauma made him very week. They treated him as if he is a few days guest in this world.

AN was fed up by all these and finally decided to surrender himself to the almighty. “Any way they decided that I will live only next six months, I thought then let me be with myself, let me be with God,” AN told me.

He then came back to his ritualistic way of life. He spent morning time for surya namskara, chanting Vedas, meditation and so on. Chanting and meditation continued in the evening time also. Over a period of time he regained the divinity on his face. He forgot about his disease.

Recently when I met him he told me that he is no more worried whether he is still suffering from any disease or not. He felt as energetic as earlier and he never had any symptoms of any disease. He has not bothered to check with any specialist as he did not felt the need to do so any more. He choose to walk a road normally people will dare to take. May be he had enough conviction and wisdom, or a blind faith. There was no doubt in his mind, no second thought about the outcome and surrendering himself to God may have worked out for him. We the common man lack all this. Modern education and exposure made us to look at everything with suspicion.

I came to know about Dr Deepak Batra’s book Quantum healing four years back. I had studied it Not once but couple of times. The principals of NAT (New Age Therapy) were gaining momentum and the miserable failure of modern medicine in my personal experience forced to me look beyond conventional treatments.

My brief stint with an Ayurvedic research and validation centre helped me in my exploration.

Nature has set us up with all the equipment we need to be perfectly healthy. Health is our natural state, and ill health is unnatural. Every day our systems are exposed to literally millions of bacteria, viruses, allergens, even carcinogens, and yet our immune system has the intelligence and skill to deal with all those invaders and keep us healthy. However, when stress, inadequate nutrition, or just fatigue weakens the immune system, those same invaders may produce disease. Dr Deepak Batra explains in Quantum healings that each of our cells has its own intelligence and each cell knows the correcting mechanism. One should not confuse the cells intelligence with illogical use of medicines.

Every second the body is adjusting to countless thousands of changing parameters, keeping us in homeostatic balance. No matter what comes along to upset the balance, the body knows its own nature, knows what ideal temperature it should be and the correct chemistry it needs to maintain, and keeps referring back to that blueprint to maintain proper balance.

The time has come for all of us to live our life in harmony with nature using the heavenly wisdom. Dr Drauzio Varella M.D, Chairman of Cancer Research Institute at UNIP, advise us to follow the below steps.

Speak your feelings – Emotions and feelings that are hidden, repressed end in illness. With time the repression of the feelings degenerates to psychosomatic diseases.

Make Decisions – The undecided person remains in doubt, anxiety, and in anguish. Indecision accumulates problems, worries and aggressions.

Be positive – Negative people enlarge problems, and negative thoughts generate negative energy that is again transformed to diseases.

Accept – The refusal of acceptance and the absence of self esteem makes us alienate ourselves. Being at one with ourselves is the core of a healthy life. Be accepted, accept that you are accepted, and accept the criticism; it is wisdom, good sense and therapy.

Trust – Distrust is a lack of faith in you and in faith itself.

Do not live life sad – Good humor, laughter, rest, and happiness these replenish health and bring long life. Happiness is health and therapy.

Wish you all good health, happiness and wisdom.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Devarayanadurga

Devarayanadurga is a tiny village surrounded by hillocks and jungle near Tumkur in Karnataka. There is a temple of Durga and Lakshmy Narasimha on top of a rock. My son used to study Engineering in Tumkur and one day I landed there just to have a break with him.

Once there, I found this place quite familiar, as if I had been there earlier sometime. The hillock, rock and even the murthy of lakshmy Narasimha seemed to be very familiar. Then onwards the place started haunting me, as someone was pulling me towards it.

I met a sadhu there in front of the Durga temple and he smiled at me instantly as I know him. His look was penetrating. I felt he knows me in and out and for a long time.

I could never forget Devarayanadurga till then. It often came to my dream and thought, like a nomadic journey through the mystic hillocks of Devarayanadurga.

I know there are things beyond human reasoning and intelligence. Why did this place haunt me, why I felt I had been there earlier in my first visit, Why did the sadhu smiled at me and looked at me till I vanished from his sight. I don’t know.

Scientist like Ian Stevenson did many years of research on past life remembrance. His research book and writings are suggestive that there is a possibility of past life and reincarnation.

Dr Brian Weiss’s clinical research reveals this more clearly. His book “Many lives Many Masters” discuss that each life is a learning session until we reach the ultimate destination.

Whatever it may be I am happy to believe that we had past life and we will come back to this world again. It is more enjoyable to learn that each life is a learning lesson and it is very comforting to believe that we correct ourselves in each life in order to purify before joining the ultimate energy.

I urge my friends to read Dr Weiss book “Many lives Many Masters”