Chronic Diseases and Philosophy of Karma

Reproduced an article by Udaya Kumar in Homeopathy and more, May 2009;

Most of the times, human beings forget that the they are formed out of two entities. That is "Matter" and "Spirit".

Just the same way as the "matter" gets degenerated and becomes diseased, the spirit also faces its consequences in the form of sufferings. We call these phenomena as body and mind, sickness and sufferings.

It should therefore be well understood that there is always a spiritual factor, a spiritual design, in more than half of what is happening all around us. This metaphysical half is mostly not understood well by science.

The idea of my explaining this is that, in an acute disease, normally the sufferings are immediate, acute and short-lived by the design of the malady itself and therefore the cosmic consciousness has little role in it and the doctor has more roles in it. Because in acute diseases the mental sufferings are less and bodily pains are more.

But in the case of Chronic ailments, there is a Karma factor, a sin factor, a faith factor, a destiny factor, an action and reaction factor, a cause and effect factor,a time & TIME factor, all come into play along with the Cosmic consciousness we call God. Here the question comes when should we interfere in a chronic patient who by the design of God is supposed to suffer for a period of time. Will it be like working against the nemesis and design of God to interfere in between and get the person relieved from the sufferings? Does it antagonize the God?


A further legitimate question and doubt by a mortal mind would be "What the hell are the doctors doing then? Yes they are treating and taking money. There responsibility to some extent is seemed to end with the money falling in their drawers. Then, aren't these doctors supposed to create a society devoid of diseases? Are they really doing that? Why? The fact is that they aren't. Because, the nobility in the doctors have been lost somewhere in the annals of history and therefore, the number of diseases are also increased and their flourishing depends upon the number of diseases and patients.

Well, this somehow fits into the larger plan of God. Those who are destined to suffer will suffer despite the presence of doctors, because doctors do not pay enough attention to go to the root of the problems and cure so that they create a healthy society rather than cure or suppress the diseases only.

In such a scenario, the question is when to attend to chronic diseases and chronic patients. My answer to this malady is that, attend to the
Chronic diseases only when the person comes to you and request to you. Do not go to the person or chase the person, as you are trying to do now, and give him the medicines to correct him. Here, Self- satisfaction becomes prominent and at the same time you are criss-crossing the God's design of sin and punishment, if at all it is there, the karma and the results.

I only wanted to stress on the point that one should not be chasing the patients rather the patient should chase and meet the doctor on his own when his time for cure destined summons him.

The conclusion is that., if one is designated by the Cosmic designs to work as a healer, come what may, the patients who are destined to be cured will reach the healer immaterial the distance, time, place, or communication facilities. And if the right person comes at the right time to the right healer, it should be presumed that the right medicine will come to his finger tip and its application would cure the person miraculously. I have many instances, and have no doubts whatsoever about that. I have picked up many times from 200 or more medicines placed in a box at random the exact medicine I wanted without checking the labels. It does not happen always. But it do happen many times that I cannot call it co-incidences.





God and human soul are fundamentally same thing. The only difference is God Wills to run the cosmos or macrocosm and human beings have been given the power of will to conduct himself to run his microcosm. It is not in the mandate of human beings to run the world or cosmos, he is overstepping there and all the maladies are result of this overstepping.

How he conduct his business is not a concern to God. The cause and effect theory is applicable to human beings. Wherever, he uses his Will and conduct things, the effect of that action is his. Whereas with many revelations by Shruti, Smriti, Prophets and Maharishis and Saints, there is a set procedure made through religions etc. how to conduct the life according to God's Will and not individual Will. There the action and its results are positive and attributable to God's ways. Karma is not a behaviour, it is the individual will and its results and that includes Thought, Speech and Action. Thought includes what you see, what you hear, what you feel, what you taste, what you smell.

Shri Krishna has well explained Karma Philosophy in totality in Bhagwat Gita. We mortals can understand that partially but cannot add anything to it because the Shruti or the revelations from the Cosmic Consciousness is finite.

A human being makes around 60,000 thoughts in a day. The person you are quoting to me as good may not be having all those 60,000 and odd thoughts in the positive way. What he thinks about is manifesting with him. For. e.g. if he thinks "I want money" all the time, without giving any thought to what ever happens around him and focused so in thought speech and action, there is no reason money should not come to him. Because his thoughts have been reduced to a handful from the 60,000. But if he thinks "my neighbour has lot of money or how is that he has money I don't have" these are negative thoughts and will not bring in money, and he will be utilising his maximum thoughts in a day for nothing. Similarly "I want to be healthy" should be the thought and why is it I have diseases? what kind of disease is this? etc,. dwells upon disease and suffering and not on health. So the sufferings comes to him. Because all actions following the thoughts are against what you actually want. Therefore, what you want do not happen and blame the results on God.

Karma is nothing but selfless thought, speech and action. Do not think about the results. If you start thinking about the results, the results becomes your thought and you are not actually thinking on the substance and its result will not be favourable for you. In other words, you spend your present thinking about future and past which are not helpful to anyone. You have to be in present and think only about the present. If you are doing something put your heart and soul into it and that would be your future and that would always be success. This is the secret to success and secret to future.

About people who are spiritual. I do not have Guru nor intent to have one as each one of us have been blessed with the Godly presence in us and its realisation is all what is required for a person to achieve the purpose in life. The path will become clear to you when that realization dawns on you. The principle here also is that those who come automatically to you and give an advise or two which you mostly require is the real Guru and not the ones we chase day in and out and worshiped by some. That is only a path to creation of a religion or sect and cannot be path towards God. One can always take God himself as Guru and proceed. He will show you in times of need where to go. If such mystical experiences are coming to pass, then the search may go on. But not until then. Human consists of spirit and matter and not matter alone, therfore, it is important that the doctors who deal with human beings understand both rather than just identifying it as psychiatry and psychology only. Everything should be understood in this world by definition and not by name. Understanding the things in the world by just names limit the sphere of thought and leads to brain contraction and not brain expansion.



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