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The Yogic System For Supreme Health of Body, Mind
and Spirit from the Original Teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda
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Chapter Eighteen
Jesus' Healing Power
By Paramhansa Yogananda, from Inner Culture, March 1935
"And
forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered
into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. And Simon's
wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and anon they tell Him
of her; and they besought Him for her. And He stood over her and
rebuked the fever; and He came and took her by the hand, and lifted
her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she arose and ministered
unto them." [Mark 1:29-31]
The rebuking
of the fever signifies that diseases are due to the lack of proper
operation of the conscious forces which govern the body, and are
also due to the evil forces which consciously allow the evil of
disease to spread in the body. Some diseases are brought about by
physical transgressions against the laws of health, but disease
germs are also created by an evil force that tries to destroy the
beautiful creation of God–the human body. When the actions
of an individual become very bad, evil vibrations are generated,
attracting disease germs, which are the agencies of evil.
Jesus could
see the evil force that was responsible for the introduction of
fever into the body of Simon's wife's mother, and thus he rebuked
it away and restored the harmony of health. Jesus commanded the
predominating evil force to depart from the body of the stricken
woman, thus reinstating the conscious Astral forces which govern
normal health.
"And at
even, when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with
diverse diseases brought them unto Him; and they that were possessed
with devils; and He laid His hands on every one of them, and healed
them. And all the city was gathered together at the door."
[Mark 1:32-33]
Jesus exercised
his supreme healing power to heal everyone who came to Him. He could
heal all those who came unto Him at that time because all of them
had the power of receptivity and faith. Faith is the soil, and the
power of God flowing through the healer is the seed. True healing
requires the true soil of faith in the patient and the powerful
seed of healing in the healer or God.
Jesus could
not heal everybody in the place where He was born because, even
powerful as He was, He could not sprout the seed of his healing
power on the rocky soil of disbelieving minds.
In healing,
the power of the healer, great or small, is limited as compared
to the unlimited healing power of God. Hence, all healers, instead
of commanding their own powers in healing should invoke the unlimited
Divine power of healing to flow through them and work certain healing.
Man's power may fail but God's power can never fail. Even though
God has unlimited healing power and though our Father does not want
to see us suffer from disease, yet He cannot heal us until we open
the gates of our own willingness to be healed. God has given us
free choice, unlike the animals, and by misusing it we can keep
God out of our lives. By using it properly, we can allow God to
heal us.
In order to
be sure of God's healing power, one must know and feel Him deeply
in meditation daily. When sure of the Divine Communion, one should
completely absorb oneself in God preceding every healing which one
tries to perform. When administering Divine healing, the healer
must act as a perfect medium in order to let God's unlimited power
flow through without obstruction. Egotism and loud declaration,
and self-laudation, such as, "I healed her," and so forth,
should be strictly avoided both in speech and mind, in order to
let the all-knowing God perform the healing.
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