21. If your Being is not Energy, how then can you be Alive?
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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.
