Chapter 13: A Promise to Yourself – Healers’ Oaths🔗

All discipline should happen with understanding. Be very clear why you are doing what you are doing. When things are very clear, when you understand the rules and regulations, they will not be a burden for you. When you don’t understand, it becomes a burden for you. Nothing should be practiced as a rule. Everything should be done by understanding and internalizing.

Why do I say that you should not drink or smoke or eat non-vegetarian food after taking Healers’ Initiation? Please be very clear: it is not morality I am trying to impose on you.

When you meditate and practice healing, you will have a beautiful and continuous energy flow. In that high level of energy, if you drink, the low energy alcohol and this high energy of meditation would oppose each other. Indulging in these practices creates a negative energy in the body and by doing Shakti Dharana meditation thereafter, it is the negative energy that is awakened.

All these things are a commitment by you to yourself. You have to make it as an understanding and internalization within yourself. I don’t want you to suppress yourself. If you can drop smoking or drinking easily, then it is ok. status or relationship with him. You may refuse this service to anyone or anything only when your personal life might be in danger.

You should understand your responsibility while taking this oath. This healing service is not yours to give or refuse at your will. The power invested in you flows from a divine source. The Divine does not distinguish between right and wrong or saint and sinner. The Divine's mercy is unconditionally available to all those who ask for it. This gift, this wealth, is not earned by you, but by great people like Patanjali, Jesus and Buddha. Your are therefore not to discriminate as to whom this is to be dispensed to. If you do so, you become a politician. You cannot afford to have enemies now or in the future. You are simply meant to radiate love and compassion. This oath should become a part of your being and your understanding.

Let me be frank: Spirituality is not practicality in this context. Be very clear that the feeling should be from your heart. You should feel like you are the Mother of planet earth. This healing meditation will work only when your heart melts for one and all in this universe. Keeping hatred in your being will actually harm, disturb or hinder you more than others. You cannot have vengeance against anyone, as it would be a blockage to the energy. This is also a pre-requisite for good health in you.

Understand the meaning of compassion from this small story:

One day, a burglar enters the abode of a master. He requests the master to allow him to spend the night there and the master agrees.

The next morning, the burglar steals the bedroll that he slept on and is about to leave. The master sees him and tells him to take the mat that was beneath the bedroll too. He also tells him that it is customary to thank the giver of any gifts. The surprised burglar thanks the master and runs away.

Later, the office of law apprehends the burglar for his misdeeds and he confesses the various acts of theft he had committed. The office of law asks the master about the theft in his house. The master declares that he himself had gifted his belongings to the burglar and that the burglar had even thanked him for the same. The burglar was simply shaken by what he heard. He just fell at the master's feet and became his disciple.

The healing meditation I am going to give you has been created and perfected over the ages by great masters. It is a culmination of centuries of rigorous tapas or penance. The original system was developed by Patanjali. The great spiritual masters who followed him spent their lives in updating and passing this precious gift down through the generations. In order to cherish this legacy and truly be benefited by it, you must be willing to drop your ego and share this gift with joy and compassion.

Remember, the only reason you can have for refusing service would be if the person was likely to violate your person or property. Actually after initiation, you will find that this attitude of compassionate sharing comes upon you naturally. In the presence of this tremendous energy, petty considerations like differences in religion, ideology or personal conflicts simply won't count or have a place in your life anymore.

Practice these four instructions:

1. Take responsibility for the other's suffering.

2. Constantly be with a compassionate and loving feeling as a mother to the whole world.

3. Practice vegetarianism and abstinence from addictives like alcohol and tobacco.

4. Practice Ananda Gandha, Shakti Dharana and Nithya Dhyaan meditations everyday.

Then, a cognitive shift will take place in you and you will move from depression to ananda or bliss!

I hereby swear that I will serve regularly and voluntarily at the Nithya Spiritual Healing Centers or start a Healing Center at home.

This oath is to make people responsible.

Understand that Nithya Spiritual Healing is a spiritual service. Ananda Gandha is a super-conscious state wherein you will be cheerful and happy during and after the prayer. Besides, it will also kindle your natural intelligence. This is the difference between super-conscious and unconscious energies.

When people heal by unconscious healing methods, you will not feel close to them or go near them comfortably. There will be a certain fear of them. On the other hand, how do you feel during Ananda Darshan? Do you ever leave the place

We will now perform a homa or fire ritual to Lord Anandeshwara.

Let us first of all understand what a fire ritual or homa is. Whether you believe it or not, accept it or not, you are from the five elements - earth, water, fire, air and space.

The divine energy or the energy of Existence is available to us in the form of space. With the bimba or by idol worship, we harness energy through the earth element. With the kalasha, or by bathing in holy waters, we harness energy through the water element. When we perform fire rituals or homa, we harness energy through the fire element. When we chant mantras, we harness that energy through the air element.

Now we are going to worship the 'Shiva energy' through fire. We are going to thank Shiva for everything that He has given us. To achieve and constantly be in the state of Shiva consciousness, we are now going to perform this homa to Lord Anandeshwara.

You may come one by one to me. I will be touching your ajna chakra. There might be a piercing or tingling sensation in the area between your anahata and manipuraka chakras at that moment. Do not fear; just relax. After that, we will be doing the Ananda Gandha meditation.

Master initiates each one present.

(After the initiation)

Each one of you has successfully taken the initiation!