The divine qualities functions through Soul and the bodily qualities functional through mind, the reflection of the Soul in the body. Soul caries light and mind carries light and mind carries logic. Soul carries love land mind carries emotion. Soul carries will, while mind carries desire, the selfish will. When the qualities of the Soul super impose upon the qualities of the body, the process is complete. Logic is the dim-light of the mind, which can be substituted by the brilliant light of the Soul. Likewise the muddy water of emotion can be distilled to gain the pure waters of love. Similarly the separative, selfish, individualistic Will can be supplemented by the Will divine. The process is called "building up of Antahkarana Sareera". In details, we shall know in the future lessons that constant application of mind upon the Soul makes the process easier and quicker.

Another understanding we gain in this context is that the Soul qualities are immutable, unchangeable and eternal through creation, while the body qualities are ever changing. They are in mutation. The Light, Love and Will remain, while the desires, emotions and logic change. The Soul remains but the body changes. If we observe carefully, there is a part in the human being that is eternal and immutable and there is another part, which is eternally mutable. One is stable. The other is changing. The stable one is called the Man, the Soul. The changing one is called his body. Man, the Soul remains, but the body he functions through changes.

The mind, the senses and the body put together is called body by the knowers. This should not be lost sight of in our study and understanding. The body has its growth and decay. It has the stages of birth, growth and death. It goes through infancy, youth, adult and old-age during its growth. It begins with birth and concludes with death.

The indwelling man has no such stages. He is made to believe that he has such transformations. The child is told that he was born on a particular day. He believes so. He is told later that he is no more child and that he should behave better. He believes so. Later he is told that he is old. He believes so. Some one tells him that he dies. He believes it too! The indweller has no birth and hence has no death. The electrical appliance may wearout but not the electricity. The expressions may cease but that which is expressing ceases not. When people refer to you as young or old, they are only referring to your body but not to you. Your body can be young or old but not you, the eternal one. The health or disease is to the body only but not to you.

To think "I am sick" is ignorance. To think "My body is sick" is knowledge. The body has birth, growth, health, sickness and death. The apparatus has vulnerability to repairs but the energy functioning through has not.

There is an Upanishad called 'Kathopanishad' which postulates that there is no such thing as death. To die is NOT TO DIE. It is strongly recommended to all the students of occultism. Healing too is an occult science and hence I suggest that you may please go through the Upanishad. Truly speaking none of us experience the so-called stages of the body. We did not experience our birth. We do not know our infancy or our childhood as particular events happening at a point of time. We also do not know at what point of time we have become old. There is no such marked experience by ourselves except the sayings of the people around. Some one says "Oh! Kumar! you are looking old" I listen to it. Some others says" Ah! you are growing old. Your hair is becoming white". I start doubting and start feeling "may be I am getting old" Yet another says "Kumar, you have become old." I start believing. But in me there is no such experience as an event. In this make believe world you are made to believe many. But be discrete. Otherwise, this world takes you for a ride!

You do not die. You may cast off the body like a garment, say the scriptures. The best Healing one can do to humanity on this Planet during this century is: to inform, educate and drive home the truth that there is no such thing as death, that to die is not to die, that death is illusory, that the death is to the body but not to man and that death of body is not the end of things.

Death is disintegration of the body. It is transfiguration to those who know. Jesus Christ demonstrated this Truth to humanity 2000 years ago. The 'Resurrection" is the message that we do not die. Unfortunately Christianity and its advocates propagated the 'crucified' Christ but not the resurrected one. It only shows the evolution of those who follow the Crucified Christ. They are bound to die because they believe in it. Christ is ever living to some people on this Planet. They have chosen to live beyond death.

"Frames and forms end in the content. The owners of the frames and forms remain. They belong to the one who is indestructible and immeasurable" says Lord Krishna to Arjuna as the 1st teaching (Gita -Chapter II Verse 18). In fact, every true teacher gives his first teaching about death and its fallacy. The need to realise the immortality of the Souls is immanent. In the present times the identity with material and material frames is all-time high. Hence the need to shift the emphasis to the source of the material frames and forms.

Even thoughts are forms. So are the emotional feelings. They are subtler than the gross physical forms. All these are robes, which we wear and they have wear and tear as their quality. The old robes are received and new robes are given. The one in the robes is constant. The indweller is constant, while change is constant to the robes of thoughts, feelings and bodies. The soul is constant, all pervading, stable and ever present.

Death is to the robes but not to its wearer. And we do not die completely. Some die to their gross physical form but not to their desires, emotions, feelings and thoughts. They come back quick to fulfil the unfulfilled desires. Some die to their desires and emotions but not to their thoughts, viewpoints and logic. They too come back due to their hold on their individualistic thoughts. There are few who die to their individualistic thoughts, view points, logic, to their emotions and to their selfish desires and yet live in the bodies. They are the ones who die completely to their limitations and thus live liberated. Those are the ones referred to by Gautama the Buddha as the beings of Nirvana. The end of the body was never looked to, as the end of things. Life moves on. It moves forward. It moves cyclically and yet progressively like a spiral. End of beings and of creation is the thought of ignorants. Endlessness of all that is and its continuity through series which are again endless is the thought of the knowledgeable.

One more understanding, a significant one we need to make in healing is that the healing is to the body but not to the Soul, the individual self. The self or the Soul needs no healing. On the contrary it is the Healer, while the body is the subject of healing. The field for healing comprises of the mind, the senses and the body. Healing is to the thoughts, emotions and the consequent diseases to the body. Where the thought, the emotion and the functioning of the body is natural and normal, health remains. When they are disturbed and are deviated from Nature and cease to be normal, the health gets "disturbed. This disturbance to natural equilibrium of the being is the seed for the disease. Ease is health and lack of it is dis--ease or disease. When man is frequently at discomfort in thoughts the seed for disease is already sown. Discomfort in thought, disturbance in emotion give rise to disease. They gradually manifest on the functional and structural system of the body.

The Science of Healing therefore has much larger scope than what is usually understood. It extends upto rectification of thoughts and neutralisation of emotions which are not natural. The sacred science of Healing works upto transformation of the mental and emotional attitudes of those who are affected. It thus has larger area of operation than mere attendance to physical diseases. The chronic physical diseases are the effects for which the causes exist in the thoughts and emotions entertained by a being. Physical discomforts can be overcome by use of physical substances, which are known as medicinal substances. Subtle physical need to be tackled with subtle substances. That is what we see as flower remedies or Homoeo remedies. Subtler and Subtlest matter such as thoughts need to be cured by subtle and sublime methods such as color, sound and meditation.

The Science of Healing therefore predominantly deals with the forces functioning within the body than with the gross physical body as such. The curative methods are also subtle forces such as sounds, colors, symbols, meditational techniques. It attempts at psychical adjustment of the apparatus, which in turn causes the adjustment of the apparatus too. The rectification is from subtle to gross and from cause to effect. The Science of Healing is therefore not far from the Science of Yoga.

A Yogi is a natural Healer and Healer (in its true meaning) is naturally a Yogi. A true teacher of Wisdom is thus a Healer and a Yogi as well. In ancient times the function of Teaching (Yoga) and of Healing moved as the two hands of the man. Treating Prana (Life) and teaching Yoga was the twin function of every Initiate/Teacher/ Gnostic. We see every Initiate healing and teaching. They are inseparable functions in life style of an Initiate. Healing therefore runs close to Initiation. This may be borne in mind.

Yet another understanding for the students of healing is that Healing is a process of self-magnetisation adopting to a way of life, where certain practices form part of life. There is preparation for Healing before we heal. The student should enable flow of healing energies through his system. If the student himself is conditioned by his bodies (mental, emotional and physical) he has no way to heal others. The dictum therefore goes "Man! heal thyself." The one conditioned by thoughts and emotions at best and at times may entertain a good intention of healing. But he can not heal. The scripture says "How can a man bound head and foot by a python can unbound another who is also bound by a python? How can an iron piece magnetize other iron piece? Unless the former gets magnetized, it can not magnetize the latter. Let us not therefore fancy to be healers. Let us remain students of Healing.

Now-a-days there are many who style themselves as Healers. They make a vocation out of it. They reduce it to commerce in due course. The Healing Science I give, need to be learnt and practiced as a measure of service, as an act of goodwill but not otherwise. The spiritual Teaching and Healing cannot be done for money. If it is done, it is business. It is "Holy Business." During ancient days in India there were mobile doctors called 'Charakas," who moved from place to place to heal. They were healing people and were moving from village to village. They were not healing for anything. They were healing for healing sake. If people offered food, they used to accept. If people offered shelter to rest they used to accept. Whatever is given (unasked) was taken. They were not looking for consideration to heal. Even Hipprocratus did so and suggested so, to his disciples. His group were healing people and whatever the patients wanted to give, they could deposit them in their back pocket: They used to carry pouches behind their back in which people could place what they can in terms of money, food or other requirements. But to-day we have a totally different scene. Hence, this urge and prayer from my side to you not to commercialize this Science of Healing. Poor is the healer that works for Money!

Let us also understand that human body is given to us. We did not choose. It is the best of the forms in creation to experience. The body too is divine. It is the God-given Vehicle to experience the journey of life. If you abuse it, it gives trouble. If you under use it, it also gives trouble. It should be used as much as is required to be used. If you over-use your vehicle, it wears out quickly. The parts may get non-functional. When you under-use your vehicle, it gets rusted. What is true with your vehicle is true with your body. Fuel it, oil it, grease it and use it to experience. The scriptures say that if one is given a human body, it is an opportunity given. Its like getting, per chance, the best vehicle in creation. It offers an opportunity to experience the splendour of creation, realising oneself. It should not be thrown away recklessly.

As much as the body is needed to journey through, so much it needs to be cast off as the journey is completed. When the purpose is served, there is no wisdom in sitting pretty in the Vehicle. The wise ones cast off their bodies as their purpose is fulfilled. The ignorants hang on, for they neither know the purpose of it nor fulfilment of it. Releasing the Soul from the shackles of the body is also Healing. Today, our medical science advanced so much that we can keep the body alive even after the man is no more conscious. The hospitals in developing countries are gradually getting filled with such non- operating yet living bodies. It is slowly emerging as a problem. This is because the Soul has not the know-how to cast off and leave, nor it has the ability to function through. This is a miserable stuck-up to the one in the body and also the ones who are his near and dear. The students of Healing are therefore to understand that:

a) body is given for the purpose

b) hold the know-how to leave the body as the purpose is fulfilled; and ,

c) even the body drops off before such fulfilment of purpose, the Soul gains one more;

In ancient times (In India), people had a concept of retirement into forests after the work is done. They used to conduct penance and cast off the body. Or they used to launch upon an endless pilgrimage and drop off the body some where on the way. They were accomplishing their purposes by about 60 years. They were installing their substitutes in all walks of life and were withdrawing from life. They carried the responsibility with them to make sure that others would continue what they have been doing, so that their absence from the scene did not affect the rhythm of life in domestic and social circles. The Kings, the Priests and others followed this path. They ceased from the thick of the society avoiding thus their burden to the next generation. In their system, there was no need for old-age homes. Sankaracharya, the Grand Master thus retired into the Valleys of Himalayas fulfilling his purpose by his 30th year. Even till the end of last century and the beginning of this century there were Initiates who used to get into Samadhi and release themselves from the mortal body. The Healer is expected to keep this in mind when he functions with aged persons.

Still another understanding of the Science of Healing is, that the cure happens from within to without. From Centre to circumference. From more important organs to less important organs. From above downwards. From emotions to diseases. From deeper layers of man to superficial layers of man.

For instance, a true Healer is not much concerned if the patient has only some skin disorders. It means least to him; in so far as the patient is otherwise at comfort. This is because the disease is at its outermost layer. Very often the skin disease is more feared by the ignorant than the disease of emotions. Men are more concerned of their outer appearances than the inner. Frequently the inner is rotten but the outer is kept up. He is the patient in danger from the stand point of a Healer but not the one who has only the skin disease. Man has tended so much towards superficiality these days that he cares more for the outer body than the inner. He knows not that he is at peril. Mahatma Gandhi once said addressing the lepers "Do not feel sorry that you have leprosy of the skin. Let you and me feel sorry, together, for those who have leprosy of the mind. They are a menace to themselves and to the world at large."

Imagine the ignorance of people that use synthetic cosmetics, scents, and other perfumes. Imagine the ignorance of those who spend millions for plastic surgery, for facial beauty, dental beauty etc. The inner beauty is safer. In so far as this is in tact, the outer can be attended to. At any rate, the outer attendance should not cause inner disturbance. This is a key to Healing.

The true healer is one who helps the patient to heal himself. The Healer stimulates through Soul-contact the power of the Soul in the patient. The awakened healing energy in the patient throws out the disease. For this purpose the related techniques will be given. Suffice for now if you understand that the patient heals himself in the presence of the healer. The healer's presence is like the presence of the magnet around the iron piece. The iron-piece gains the magnetic energy which is dormant within itself, and starts magnetising itself. Such is the process of healing.Healing is a happening in the presence of the Healer and is NOT a doing as is generally- understood. The stories of initiates healing the sick throw light on this dimension of healing.

There is a 'Time dimension' to healing. Time holds the key to sickness. The duration of sickness and its curability can be well understood when the healer carries the understanding of Time in relation to the sick. The Science of Healing functions within the purview of the laws of Time. Astrology is the Science that reveals the dictates of time in relation to patient's condition. The student of Healing is therefore expected to hold knowledge of the Medical Astrology, to function in tune with Time.

The whole Creation functions as per certain Laws as are observed by the ancient seers. The Law of alternation, the Law of Pulsation, the Law of Periodicity, the Law of Involution and Evolution are some of the important laws. Within the Law of Involution and Evolution, there exists the law of 'Karma' and within that law there is the Law of Individual Karma, relating to the Planet and the Planetary beings. According to the state of Evolution, the Planet carries certain diseases from time to time. The planetary beings are subjected to these diseases. Besides there is also the Karma of the Nation, the Karma of the Race, the Karma of the Family of which the Individual is a member. The individual, besides the above, has his own individual Karma. This Karma too conditions the Healing. The Law of Karma is therefore, another important factor that the Healer should know and be aware of while functioning with Healing.

The Karma, through Time conditions the functioning of Healing.

All healing is subject to these two important dimensions of Life, Often the healer experiences that one patient of a particular disease is cured and another patient of the same disease is not cured. It has the implications of karma. Again the healer finds a patient not cured through healing at one time is cured by healing at another time. It has implications of time. These subjective factors should be well understood in Healing. Otherwise, the healer gets disturbed and disappointed at times; The healer should understand that disease is also part of life. Disease exists and co-exists with us. It needs to be attended to from time to time. The patient should also be educated of this fact, so that undue importance is not given to disease.

The feeling about disease is greater disease than the disease itself. You come across people who are unduly concerned of their disease. They talk about it. Discuss about it, argue about it, besides attending to it. If you attend to the disease it is enough. If you further engage in it, it grows in strength. "Energy follows thought" is an occult fact. The more one is engaged about his disease in thought, he supplies energy to disease and makes it tough. Frequent recollection of disease is harmful in the long run. "Give to Caeser what is Caeser's" is the principle that one has to follow. Pay as much attention as is required to treat the disease and function in life for the rest of the day. Functioning in life should dominate functioning in disease. Let disease be given its due share and let life also be given its Lion's share. When you move more and more with Life, the disease recedes, for Life always moves forward and you too move with it wriggling out of the shackles of disease. Let not the mind to get pre- occupied with disease. The mind gets the disease i.e., discomfort when the disease preoccupies the mind. It can not help you to do other meaningful acts in life. We see people mourning and moaning over their diseases continuously. Gradually they withdraw from life and live in disease. They close up all possibilities for healing. It is a dangerous process. It should not be allowed to happen. As far as possible, turn the person away from this thought process. Man to-day gets informed more and more of the Science of disease and medicines. The Healer gets informed more and more of the Science of Health and the way of Life that provides health and prevents disease. 'Prevention is better than cure' is the popular saying. There is a way of life that enables maintenance of health and prevents falling into disease. This Science is the need of the hour in the present world of disease and medicine.

The Science of Health should replace the Science of Disease and Medicine. The Science of Healing acts as the bridge for man to cross over from the kingdom of disease to the kingdom of health.

The ancient most Science of Health Ayurveda propounds the way of life that naturally carries health in it. There is no such thing as even maintaining health. If you follow the way of life, health is automatically maintained. The very word 'Ayur-Veda' means the Wisdom of Longevity / Life. This Science speaks more of health than of disease. It speaks of the right approach to life that keeps health in good stead in preference to disease and the medicines relating thereto. Ayur-veda propounds principles that keep man natural and turn him gradually to Nature.

Healing Energy is present all around. It needs to be channeled. The individual unit (human unit) consciousness has the facility to channelise the energy. The Healing Energy is presented to us through all the five elements -Solids (matter), Water, Fire, Air and Ether. The elements are again the mediums for the energy. The color (the Light), the sound too are the mediums. The Five Kingdoms of Nature namely: the mineral, the plant, the animal, the human and the deva also present the energy. All that is In the Creation is expression of the soul. Therefore, the Creation presents subtly the soul-energy or the Healing energy. The forms in Creation function as mediums for expression of the energy. Hence they are the healing agents. The Healer too is an agent-medium.

There is a certain method to draw the energy and distribute it. Adoption to the method enables the flow of the energy. It is nothing but adoption to the Creation which the Healer has to gain. Attunement to nature and its Kingdoms causes the necessary harmony and harmony is the status demanded of Healer to heal. Our right attitude to the5 kingdoms is the first step. Our orientation is the next step and our attunement is the final step. The modern man needs to learn the right attitude towards mineral, plant, animal and human kingdoms, let alone the deva kingdom. His present attitude in recent centuries is one of exploitation. We exploit everything to our profit. We are commercial and profit oriented. We want to profit from everything around. Since everyone of us think so we have competition. Conflict and quarrel. In Nature we find mutuality. One supports the other and thereby gets supported.

We believe in supporting ourselves. Hence we are in Juxtaposition to Nature. That is our enigma. That is our problem. We need to learn and thereby gain right attitude towards our use of the Nature's resources. Just as the mineral, the plant and the animal serve us, we too need to serve them. We mostly kill them for our pleasure, for our fancy and for our pride. It now has a boomeranging effect on us. We are now learning to plant trees, purify rivers and arrest industrial pollution. We are learning from our mistakes. Means we are gaining the right attitude. We learn that we can not eternally use or exploit others for our profit. There is a point you reach where you have to give back. Meaning, we are learning to be useful to others - not only use others. A Healer if intends to be so, needs to learn to be more useful/serviceable to others than to himself. Usefulness is the path of Yoga and is equally so for the path of Healing. The dictum for healers is "Be useful". To be useful is the end step that gives us right orientation to the Nature and its wealth (resources) When the orientation is complete we land in the final step i.e. attunement. The life stories of the Initiates, once again, give us this clue. They were more useful to the life around them than to themselves That is the right tuning. That is why they stand over thousands of years as guides to humanity. They continue to inspire people who wish to gain right attitudes.

Let us now consider the way to link upto the five Kingdoms of nature, gain their co-operation (friendship) and thereby establish harmony. The procedure requires daily practice in life. The practice should continue till it becomes a habit. The habit should continue till it becomes part of life. It should ultimately become the way of life. Healing is the way of life but not a vocation.

One should sit alone and question oneself, if at all, he would like to be a Healer. If he decides so, there is a way or a path to be tread. The decision should be followed by the procedure that leads to accomplishment. This decision should be made by oneself and it should be for once and for all time. Will is the ignition that leads to Initiation. Initiation is nothing but the sacred entry into Wisdom. All of you have gathered to know and to prepare and thereby adopt to, Healing as a way of life. It is so. Atleast, I suppose so. This

supposition is based on facts. You have decided to attend to this group living at the cost of your time and money and some of you did it even at the cost of your family harmony. Hence, decide if you choose to get into or not. There is a choice now. The sacred science is for those who carry the 'Will' and the 'continuity of purpose'. Will in so far it continues and is continuous, it is called TAPAS, meaning Fiery Aspiration. It makes us aspirants, to start with. Aspiration keeps us going. Its presence gives us inspiration. Its absence leads us to Aspirin -the medicine for head-ache.

Once the decision is made to adopt to Healing as a way of life, we get into the detail of its procedure which forms part of our daily life. The link to the 5 Kingdoms appears on the page 1 of Healing Science. We know the 5 kingdoms. They are the mineral, the plant, the animal, the human and the deva kingdoms. We inevitably inter-act with all these kingdoms daily. What we now do is that we interact with them more consciously. That means with awareness, with more awareness than before. It enables us to recognise their existence first of all. Yes, we interact with many intelligences on daily basis. Our action itself is based on the functioning of innumerable intelligences within and around us. Among those manifold intelligences, are the intelligences of the 5 kingdoms. They are within us and around us. We need to link up the ones within and without to facilitate inter-flow. This makes the human body transparent. Recognition of their existence is the first step towards it. There are minerals in us. There are minerals outside too. Like-wise, the plants. The plants have characteristic of sensation. We too have sensation. The animals have emotion. We too have emotion. The human have thoughts, multiplicity of them. We consider ourselves human. The Devas have light, love and power. We too have them in some measure.

Thus the human being carries with him the 5 kingdoms in some measure and he is the 6th one. He functions in all the 5 kingdoms and he is the 6th one. The 5 kingdoms in him are his avenues and he himself is the avenue for the ONE who is Universal, called the 7th ONE. The 7th ONE functions through and through the 6 avenues. The human has possibility and potential to function in the 5 avenues. It depends where he settles. Some settle as the body. Some others settle in sensations and excitements. Yet others settle in emotions.

Still others settle in thoughts. Few others settle in light. Very few settle in themselves as soul, linking upto the Universal Soul. They are the ones who can channelise the Universal Healing Energy. Hence the importance to cognise the five kingdoms in and around us as first step.

The next step is to develop co-operation with them. Making friendship with them. The Kingdoms within the human being are blocked due to ignorant human behaviour. The blockage causes in us suffocation, leading to disturbance to health. We believe too much in material acquisition. We fill our bodies, our houses and our places with material. Our possessive approach has its psychological grip developed in us to grip the functioning of the mineral in us. The relaxation of this grip over material is the Key to mineral balancing in the beings say the ancient healers. In the way of life, therefore, they included periodical Donative rituals. Periodical donation of useful material to people helps relaxation of the inner grip. There have been rituals in all system of ancient life where donations played a major role.

Donation of Gold, Silver, Copper, Bronze and Brass articles was the concluding part of every Vedic Ritual. Minimum 10 donations are made at every ritual and rituals were carried out on astrologically important days. In healers life too, donation of material useful to others should find significant place. Healer is essentially a giver. Unless 'giving' forms part of his life in the initial steps, there can be no progress in the path of Healing.

Donations given at right time, in right place to right people with right attitude has significant impact in harmonising the donor.

"Have no remunerative motive when you offer. Let offering be for its own sake. Let it be to proper person at proper time" says Bhagavad Gita (Chapter -17). The scripture further says "Avoid offering to get fulfilled. Also avoid half-minded offering." The third instruction of the scripture is "Avoid insult during or after offering. Avoid offering things not useful to the donee. At all times evince keen interest in offering." The instructions are clear. They need no elaboration. They are all "Commandments" relating to the act of offering. They should be introduced into our life. This has its impact on our psychological grip over things. Much release takes place.

Avail your birthdays, the birthdays of the great ones, the birthdays of your near and dear ones to offer things to those who need.

Do it with pleasure and with keen interest. Don't do it because you j have to do it. When you do because you have to do it, there is no pleasure, no poise and no fun. Do it if you like it and forget it. Move forward. Do not live on it in thought or in speech. Let it be secretive even to yourself. Then it is sacred! This habit gradually helps us to develop friendship with the mineral kingdom.

Make sure that you offer to the needy and not to others. Offering to those who offer us later is a social value. Offering to those from whom nothing is expected is a spiritual value.

Let your approach to the plant kingdom be tender and soft. We live by the plant in many ways. The daily life of the healer shall include in its routine watering and nursing of the plant. This is a method to link up to the plant kingdom. In sowing seeds, nursing the plants and watering them till they grow sufficiently strong, there is much education. The process is complete when the tree bears fruits or gives flowers or gives shade. Make sure as healer that you grow flower gardens or fruit gardens or even shade giving trees. One learns much in the process. The process is called Cultivation. Cultivation is of the seed into useful tree. It contains series of transformations. Observation of these transformations unfolds many faculties in us. It reveals that a small seed unfolds into fruit bearing trees (or flower bearing or shade giving.). It does so in total co-operation with matter, water and air and sunlight. It is tuned to nature and grows naturally. Yes! the growth is slow, gradual, peaceful, non-competitive and is quiet and silent. We too should enable the seed (as we are) to permeate into the air, water and matter of our body through exposure to sun-light.

Orientation to sunlight is the key-note for the seed of the Soul to permeate. In otherwords we bow-down to the light of the East. We landed on this Planet travelling from the Sun and its rays. Our home is in East. We need to orient to its light. The Plants give this message to us. It shows that it can not grow effectively unless it is oriented to the sun-light. It means, we too can not grow unless we orient to the light of the East. Please remember that the light of the East is not coming from the Sun but through Sun. The Light exists even before the sun. The light is the strength of the Sun. Sun functions as a channel to this light. The light that shines through the Sun and reaches as the rays is called 'Savitru' the light of Gayatri. The Plant among many others, reminds us of the need to orient to Light for growth.

Sun-Light carries the life energy and the healing is transmission of these energies through the Sun centre -Heart Centre. That is one message we effectively receive when we attend to the Plant.

And other message is that the plant transforms. It goes through varieties of transformations. We need to transform as Plant, in terms of our thoughts, emotions and desires.

Yet another is that the fruits and flowers of the plant are not used by the tree/plant. They bear fruits and flowers for others! Totally for others! It is a sublime teaching. The fruits are for animals and men, the flowers are for the fragrance. The trees have no value of them for themselves. Our fruits of action too are intended by Nature for others. If we eat the fruit for ourselves, we have not grown as much as the plant. Offering the fruits of one's actions for the benefit of others is natural. Eating them up for himself is unnatural. "He is a Pilferer who eats for himself" says the scripture (Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 3). The Plant Kingdom stands as an excellent example of this Natural law. Its flowers, its fruits, its leaves, branches, even its trunk and sometimes its roots are useful.

Still another message we get from them is that they stand in the heat of the Sun-light and offer you a cool-shade. A virtue befitting the high initiates indeed! The initiates absorb others' conflict and bestow harmony. They dissolve crisis and pave way for the peace. They receive the hot emotional attacks from those who love and who hate them. But they spread to all, their cool equanimity through silence, through looks and through smiles. Seldom they speak and are mostly silent. The trees too.

The animal and the human can be harmful. The trees are only helpful. You throw a stone at a fruit bearing tree, it offers you a fruit! You throw a stone at a man, he offers you what? It is one's own imagination.

It is time that the students of healing learn the concrete jungles and learn to live with the plant kingdom. Nature has much to teach and to harmonise.

And trees generally grow vertical. Their branches grow side ways for the beauty. We grow more side ways than vertical.

We can this way multiply the significance of the Plant Kingdom. But there is no such need. As you live by the trees, you will unlearn artificiality and learn more and more as an unfoldment from within. Gardening therefore, is a sacred practice in life which needs to be developed.

Just as you water, nurse and grow plants as a part of your daily life, you may also offer food to animals and birds on a daily basis. Just a morsel of food and a handful of grains. You do not have to own them and tame them for this purpose. Just offer them some eatables as you come across them. Animals serve the humans so much that we need to reciprocate in love. We use them for variety of purposes. Their milk, their flesh, their bones, and even their skin. Even a dead animal serves the human in the shape of warm-clothing, chappals and shoes. "I am dead yet I continue to serve you" is the message of the animal through the shoes, we daily wear. In contrast, do we serve so. The human skin is not so useful as that of the animal. We use but we are yet to be useful. We use the mineral, the plant, the animal, the co- human and the Devas. Our usefulness stands no comparison to our exploitation of them. They are compassionate still! We should wait and see how long this one-sided stay continues. Nature has higher levels of tolerance it seems. But everything has its limits.

In this Aquarian Age, there is a definite need to go in for lighter food. We need lighter bodies. This is space age. We need to fly. To fly we need to eat like birds, but not like? (better I leave unsaid). See, how birds eat. See how light they are! We too can do so. We will come to it later. The first step towards being Aquarian is to abstain from eating animal flesh. There is need to bring down animal killing and eating. The whole atmosphere is polluted through this outrage viz., butchering the animals. It is more than 2000 years since the doctrine of "Ahimsa" was pronounced by the most compassionate human being namely: Gautama, the Buddha. He gave a call to humanity to put a stop to animal and human killing. This Earth is getting more and more drenched with the blood that spills from the bodies of the animal and the human. It has its impact on the etheric currents of the Planet. It is establishing itself more and more as our instinct to kill. The crime today at Global level speaks of it. The statistics show that our killings are all time high. To kill another for one's own end seems to be reduced to a routine.

In India if you deny a beggar, he moves away. In New York if you do so, you run the risk of your life! Life seems to be no more so safe in the so called developed parts of the Globe. We do not know if we are developing or enveloping ourselves into a catastrophe. We are winding fast around us and the tentacles are tightening. We need to unwind. Otherwise we meet our end by our own, so called Wisdom. Let there be a beginning some-where. Let it be here, in this seminar hall. Let us stop killing, starting with the animal. We can live and live well even without meat. We do not die if we do not eat meat. But the animals die if we eat. Let us save the animal. It is useful to us even otherwise. Let us therefore be wise.

Let us realise that we cannot exist, destroying the life around us. We made inroads into the balancing system of nature. In our pursuit of satiation of human needs, we reached the extreme state of cutting the branch (of the tree of life) which sustains us. Man who is expected to inter-act with Nature is frequently and significantly inter-fering with the Nature. We developed our Sciences and are using them to our ultimate destruction. In our ambition to extract more and more from Nature for our benefit, we induce unnatural chemical actions into plant and animal Kingdoms. We grow more with the assistance of man- made chemicals and we draw more from animals through artificial means. As a consequence we eat chemical foods and drink chemicalised milk. In advanced nations like Germany, the allergy to wind, the allergy to polypus and the allergy to even honey is fast developing in people. Everything is allergic -may be the nature is growing more and more allergic to man! The healer has to reverse this process and retrace the steps. It should start with him and his associates, It is real service. The need to re-establish harmony with Nature is more immanent now than before and this is part of the healers' work, The one who wishes to be a student of Healing shall have to begin with these fundamental re-adjustments.

The next Kingdom the healer confronts is the human kingdom. He is to develop the necessary harmony with the humans- the most difficult task. Man is the enemy of man. He feels it easier to live with the plant and the animal than with the human. Even wild animals are preferred to the human animal! I see in Europe people preferring to live with cats and dogs, than the human being. They find the latter more amiable companions than the humans. To live with humans has become a night-mare! It shows our inability to live with our own stock. The more and more man is put to civility, he is finding it more and more difficult to adjust with the humans. Don't you see that we are developing a human society where the rights are dominating the I responsibilities. Yes! -We need to found a Global Society for fundamental human responsibilities. That should be the dawn of the new era. Unless man learn his responsibility towards a co-being, including the human there is no future to this humanity. The future is sealed by the acts of ignorance.

All the Scriptures echo the human values -be it of East or of West. Today the modern man is almost deaf to his echo. He feels that that the religion is not useful to him in this space-age. He is partly true because the religionists are busy building their isms and do not propagate Truth through demonstration.

The life-stories of the initiates are the only answer once again to the situation. The way they lived, they interacted with Nature and with the beings is a clear example for anyone to pickup and follow. In their lives we do not find too-much worships and rituals. Their worship is of daily life and their ritual was to demonstrate love to all and malice to none. Krishna, Buddha and Christ stand out till date as examples for those who keenly wish to follow the path of peace and harmony. They still remain sources of inspiration to billions all over the world. But the Religions built around them are not so effective. They are marred by concepts that condition any fresh approach to life. In the name of religion more and more differences are thrown up resulting in conflict. Neither Krishna, nor Buddha or the Christ founded any religion. It is the black magic of the followers, who endeavour to gain power and popularity through those sacred names. This dirty game is played continuously by the followers of every Initiate who gradually conceal the path of Light wa