What Is Healing? (Part 2)

There is a beautiful saying in the Mahabharata. 'We all have three bala, three strengths.' One is physical strength; another is mental strength and the third is spiritual strength. Physical strength means physical health, physical well-being, physical power. The second is mental strength, mental power and intellectual power. The third is spiritual strength, the love and compassion – all these things.

If a man has only physical strength without spiritual strength, he will become just a rogue, a rowdy, a criminal. If a man has only intellectual strength without spiritual strength, again, he will become a cunning, criminal person; he will not do any good. Only when you are endowed with spiritual strength, the other two strengths will become useful for humanity. Somehow, we miss the emotional strength, the emotional being, which is why certain aspects of science have turned towards destruction.

Today we have atomic weapons on planet Earth, which can burn this planet Earth not once or twice but seven hundred times over! All the countries have piled up atomic weapons which can burn planet Earth seven hundred times. Of course, this is a report from five months ago; now, it can even be seven hundred and three times or seven hundred and four times. What is the reason? It is the right knowledge in the hands of the wrong people. This is what happens when shakti works without buddhi. It is the surest way to destroy humanity.

Our intellectual growth without emotional growth leads to more and more danger. We all have worked towards the intellectual growth but have forgotten the emotional dimension. Our rishis, our mystics and our Masters have worked on the emotional dimension, on the development of emotions; that is why, in Bharat, every village will have a big temple, a bigger temple than the school of that village, even bigger than the basic necessities of the village; all other things are secondary. The temple is the primary thing for any village or settlement to be created because they have worked continuously to develop the emotional dimensions of a human being. Mystics know that the development of emotions is the basic necessity for holistic growth, for holistic development. Once a man is developed on the emotional level, he will have everything; his life will be heaven.

Sarada Devi, wife of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, says in one place, 'Live with deep trust; live with deep faith; live with

deep love.' Of course, when you love, there is every chance you can be cheated. Sarada Devi says, 'Even if you are cheated, if you live with love, you will live like God on planet Earth. On the other hand, even if you are not cheated, if you live without love, your life will be deeply dry and dead.'

Your life will be just a dull, dead leaf. Without love, even if you create all the comforts of life, you may have a bed but not sleep. Only with love, trust, compassion and faith can you have deep sleep. Somebody asked me, 'Swamiji, in Bharat, our ancestors wasted all their energy by building temples; every village has got big, big temples. What is the need of having such big temples? In other countries, they have all built big, big universities and scientific research centers; they've all built beautiful infrastructure: roads, bridges, all the possibilities for economical growth, but our rishis, our Masters, only built temples. What is this? They've wasted their energy.'

I told them, 'Fools, you do not understand the rules of yourself. You do not know the greatness of the rishis and mystics. You say they wasted their energies in the temples; you do not know these temples are the root cause for our emotional development. Because of these temples, our country is out of psychological disorders and diseases. Bharat is such a big country, yet only one percent of the population takes any medicine related to mental disorders, related to mind.'

However, in the other developed countries, we know the ratio. In some countries, two out of every three patients are diagnosed with depression and take psychological medicines. People are very proud to say, 'If I don't take my pills, I cannot live.' It is emotional development, emotional growth, that gives a holistic growth to your personality. If you are whole, you are holy. Anyone who has grown emotionally, who has opened their heart, is qualified to receive healing.

So open your heart and receive the healing energy of the Divine and get healed physically, mentally, emotionally and ultimately, spiritually, by the Divine Grace, by absorbing His energy. May you feel and experience, be in, be one with, nithyananda – eternal bliss.