20. Make Any Pain Disappear!

Pick anyone at random and ask them how they feel. Chances are, they will immediately report a pain. Did you know that pain has no positive existence?

Pain, like darkness, has only negative existence. If we shine light onto darkness, it has to disappear. In the same way, pain is caused by low energy, low attention to a body part or anything for that matter. When we bring our attention to the area, we are in effect bringing our energy to it. We will then see that the pain simply disappears.

The pain in our body is actually the gap between our real body and our mental body. It exists as the pain body between the physical body and the mind.

If we live outside of our body for a long time, the gap becomes too large and the pain will also increase proportionately. If the gap is small, we feel the strength of the pain body also diminish. When I say 'outside the body', I mean not living completely in the present with our mind. Where we are, our mind is not. The mind is wandering between the past and future continuously. This is what causes this gap.

Reducing pain is simply a matter of reducing this gap. How to reduce this gap? There is only one method for it. We need to continuously live in the now, the present moment, and accept whatever that moment brings to us without resistance. We need to live with awareness throughout the day, '24-7-365' as we say.

If we live in the present we will see two miracles happening to us. First, we will be free of pain and second, we will continuously experience bliss inside our being.

Be very clear: when the gap between the pain body and the pleasure body is reduced, we feel pleasure. When the gap between our body and the mind is reduced, when we come to the present moment, we feel that pleasure. Whenever we do not live in the present moment we feel pain.

There is a beautiful Zen saying, 'Bring your awareness to your body and to your pain, and you will see that pain disappears.' Any pain, be it physical or emotional, will disappear.

Any pain we experience is the result of unawareness.

Next time you feel pain, focus on the pain, instead of diverting your attention. Go into the pain without feeling any suffering and without thinking about the pain. Just watch the pain and you will find that it disappears.

People ask me, 'Swamiji, how does your touch heal so many people? How can just your touch do so much healing in our physical, mental, and emotional being?'

An enlightened master is more than living in his body. He is present with his whole Being. Therefore, simply, the presence of an enlightened master is enough to heal. When a master is present, his being is there. There is no other secret.

People ask me, 'Do you chant any mantra when you heal? Please teach us. We will also do it.'

I don't chant any mantra. No chanting at all. When I touch you, I just become that touch. That is all. My whole Being touches. There is nothing else. My whole Being feels the touch.

Our being is pure energy. We can choose to believe it or not, but the truth is, we are energy. Do not doubt this. If your being is not energy, how are you alive? We are alive and moving because we are simply energy.

How can we be anything else except pure energy? When we give our total energy and concentration to anything, it blossoms into energy.

When I touch, I am touching totally: I am totally in tune with the touch. That touch is my Being. That is all. That energy heals. Totality is always energy.

Why do we touch the feet of the master? Because he is complete. His being is totally here in the field of 'now'. He is in the present, in this space, now and here. He lives totally, completely, and absolutely now.

Here is our problem: all our life we have avoided living in the 'present' or 'now'. We begin this game from the moment we are born and play it until we die. We never face the moment of now.

Why do we do this? Why do we avoid being in the now? Because, facing now or living in the now means taking responsibility for our own life. It also means living now, right this second, filled with energy. It means that we live totally in the moment that presents itself and as it offers itself. Whatever is happening in the moment, we should completely accept it, acknowledge it and watch it.

Accept it. This responsibility will let us be in touch with the energy of our being. That energy is joy or bliss, nithyananda.