Gurucharanam Saranam
Astral Causes behind Diseases
Mukundan P.R.
Health is the natural expression of the soul, the emanation of values lived and virtue earned in synchronization with its evolutionary process. It is true of any system or organization too. Therefore, a person or a society cannot be made healthy by treating the symptoms alone which is mostly the current practice among health activists. The vision of Navajyoti Sri Karunakara Guru has opened a new school of thought on the problems of health and astral factors behind diseases.
Whatever little awareness there is today with regard to the subjective causes of diseases, it is confined to a secondary level of causative factors such as wrong lifestyle, food habits, environment, etc. The analysis does not go beyond the physical and mental levels. The spiritual or subjective aspect of health is not given enough attention, despite the fact that the basic issues of health are rooted in the soul of man.
Our sages have mentioned that diseases – vyaadhi, are the result of worries, i.e. aadhi. We all know that peace is the precondition for health. The subjective person, the soul is ever pure, blissful consciousness. But the tranquility of the soul gets dissipated by the push and pulls of actions arising out of one’s vasanas or inner tendencies. The soul loses its tranquility because of its confinements with ego, mind, and senses. Once this confinement happens, the soul starts running outwardly, never to experience peace again.
This worrisome status, along with unhealthy actions disturbs the flow of prana – the rhythmic flow of vital energy in the body. Once the rhythm of prana is thus disturbed, it destabilizes the bodily fluids and vital airs causing malfunctions in the body. The food may get over-digested, digest irregularly or not digest at all. When the digestive system is affected, diseases also rear its head. Therefore, diseases have their origin in the subjective aspect of a person.
Though Ayurveda and Siddha, the Indian systems of medicine developed by the sages acknowledge the relation of diseases with the soul aspects, they have not been able to provide a remedy to problems arising out of karmic, ancestral, and spiritual pollution.
The focus in actual Yoga practice is to bring this subjective aspect, i.e. the soul into equilibrium through the control of prana. It means a lot of spiritual regimentation, physical discipline, and long continuous practice. It may be, therefore, suitable only to a small segment of people in this fast track of life, who have leisure and a suitable environment. Moreover, if yoga is not practiced under an advanced master with self-realization, it may also lead to physical and mental complications.
Tranquility is achievable with the highest virtue and purity in the soul. Yoga has been reduced to mere physical and mental exercises today. However, despite the question of its practicability in this age, Yoga remains the ancient Indian science of self-realization, very authentic and liberating in its vision.
When we talk about the health of our soul, three important factors are to be thought of; the soul’s karmic, ancestral, and spiritual influences. Unless a person is able to liberate him from the binding effects of these three factors, the hope of immunity from diseases, mental and physical problems becomes impossible.
The karmic residues of the soul earned over multiple births are recorded as karmagati. According to the auspicious and inauspicious nature of karmagati, corresponding effects will manifest in life as diseases and other misfortunes and vice versa. Unless the karmic element is understood and appropriate rewinding or rehabilitating karma is performed, the disease cannot be successfully tackled. These imprints in the soul are subject to the vision of seers – an Atmagyani Guru. Medical science and its methods of diagnosis are helpless in this area. All medical systems today concentrate only on the symptoms, not on the root causes related to the spirit inside.
Secondly, there are also a person’s genetic links which also become the source of certain diseases – mostly hereditary in nature. Mental retardation and other such misfortunes have a genetic link. It is known as pitru dosha in astrological terms. The spiritual and genetic contamination in the ancestral soul affects the health of progeny too. Here too, medical science is helpless because karmic and spiritual bindings of ancestral souls are beyond the scope of science. This soul science is subject to a spiritual regime and therefore under the purview of spiritual science and spiritual masters.
One of the important contributions of Navajyoti Sri Karunakara Guru, the founder of Santhigiri Ashram in the area of healthcare is His thoughts on the astral causations behind diseases which He referred to as karma dosham, pitru dosham, and Aradhana dosham. Mention has already been made about the Karmic and Ancestral problems. The third aspect, Aradhana Dosham is related to deviated spiritual practices and the consequent debilities, deformities, and devolution occurring in the individual’s soul.
Aradhana Dosham is also related to spiritual mobility through spiritual zones of varying evolutionary nature with their peculiar color, effects, and hierarchies. Though the sages have mentioned it, the concept of spiritual zones and their relation to health issues is an area that has not been yet explored properly.
It forms part of the discourse on spiritual pollution, which directly and indirectly affects the measure of virtue and the evolutionary orientation of the soul. Spiritual pollution is the stagnation of souls in lower astral planes with its adverse effects on health, one’s progeny, and family life.
The tranquility of the soul is experienced in higher spiritual planes above the hierarchies of spirits, celestials, angels, gods, and goddesses. The astral planes up to heaven are related to pleasure and pain, name and form. By their worship and spiritual practices, the souls get connected to these lower astral planes, which produce only dual experiences of pain and pleasure, sorrow and happiness. In other words, it is the abode of base desires or ashta raga- the eight-fold bindings of the soul.
So long as the soul is subject to ashta raga, there will be imbalances and variations in the karmic and spiritual earnings affecting the measure of the soul’s virtue and evolutionary growth. At the present time, mankind is mostly related to these lower spiritual planes; hence the possibility of enduring health remains an unrealistic dream.
We have mentioned that enduring health is the result of tranquility arising from the soul’s composure in higher spiritual planes where all dualities disappear and the soul remains in its state of purity and positive spiritual emanations. It is the plane where Oneness of God and Oneness of Humanity become an actual experience. This spiritual transition is the basis for a healthy society and necessary to achieve lasting peace, enduring health and progress.
Mankind, therefore, requires the guidance of such a spiritual master, who has transcended the highest spiritual planes. The Supra-mental evolution mentioned by Sri Aravind Ghosh is related to this spiritual transition. Before embarking on this path of higher spiritual transition, one has to get rid of the karmic, ancestral, and spiritual baggage by rightly establishing oneself in the path of such a spiritual master.
The dialogue on human health can become more meaningful only when the subjective and astral aspects mentioned above are given due attention and thought. Santhigiri Ashram beckons each and all to such a practical path of higher spiritual transition, health, and peace.
Astral Causes behind Diseases
Mukundan P.R.
Health is the natural expression of the soul, the emanation of values lived and virtue earned in synchronization with its evolutionary process. It is true of any system or organization too. Therefore, a person or a society cannot be made healthy by treating the symptoms alone which is mostly the current practice among health activists. The vision of Navajyoti Sri Karunakara Guru has opened a new school of thought on the problems of health and astral factors behind diseases.
Whatever little awareness there is today with regard to the subjective causes of diseases, it is confined to a secondary level of causative factors such as wrong lifestyle, food habits, environment, etc. The analysis does not go beyond the physical and mental levels. The spiritual or subjective aspect of health is not given enough attention, despite the fact that the basic issues of health are rooted in the soul of man.
Our sages have mentioned that diseases – vyaadhi, are the result of worries, i.e. aadhi. We all know that peace is the precondition for health. The subjective person, the soul is ever pure, blissful consciousness. But the tranquility of the soul gets dissipated by the push and pulls of actions arising out of one’s vasanas or inner tendencies. The soul loses its tranquility because of its confinements with ego, mind, and senses. Once this confinement happens, the soul starts running outwardly, never to experience peace again.
This worrisome status, along with unhealthy actions disturbs the flow of prana – the rhythmic flow of vital energy in the body. Once the rhythm of prana is thus disturbed, it destabilizes the bodily fluids and vital airs causing malfunctions in the body. The food may get over-digested, digest irregularly or not digest at all. When the digestive system is affected, diseases also rear its head. Therefore, diseases have their origin in the subjective aspect of a person.
Though Ayurveda and Siddha, the Indian systems of medicine developed by the sages acknowledge the relation of diseases with the soul aspects, they have not been able to provide a remedy to problems arising out of karmic, ancestral, and spiritual pollution.
The focus in actual Yoga practice is to bring this subjective aspect, i.e. the soul into equilibrium through the control of prana. It means a lot of spiritual regimentation, physical discipline, and long continuous practice. It may be, therefore, suitable only to a small segment of people in this fast track of life, who have leisure and a suitable environment. Moreover, if yoga is not practiced under an advanced master with self-realization, it may also lead to physical and mental complications.
Tranquility is achievable with the highest virtue and purity in the soul. Yoga has been reduced to mere physical and mental exercises today. However, despite the question of its practicability in this age, Yoga remains the ancient Indian science of self-realization, very authentic and liberating in its vision.
When we talk about the health of our soul, three important factors are to be thought of; the soul’s karmic, ancestral, and spiritual influences. Unless a person is able to liberate him from the binding effects of these three factors, the hope of immunity from diseases, mental and physical problems becomes impossible.
The karmic residues of the soul earned over multiple births are recorded as karmagati. According to the auspicious and inauspicious nature of karmagati, corresponding effects will manifest in life as diseases and other misfortunes and vice versa. Unless the karmic element is understood and appropriate rewinding or rehabilitating karma is performed, the disease cannot be successfully tackled. These imprints in the soul are subject to the vision of seers – an Atmagyani Guru. Medical science and its methods of diagnosis are helpless in this area. All medical systems today concentrate only on the symptoms, not on the root causes related to the spirit inside.
Secondly, there are also a person’s genetic links which also become the source of certain diseases – mostly hereditary in nature. Mental retardation and other such misfortunes have a genetic link. It is known as pitru dosha in astrological terms. The spiritual and genetic contamination in the ancestral soul affects the health of progeny too. Here too, medical science is helpless because karmic and spiritual bindings of ancestral souls are beyond the scope of science. This soul science is subject to a spiritual regime and therefore under the purview of spiritual science and spiritual masters.
One of the important contributions of Navajyoti Sri Karunakara Guru, the founder of Santhigiri Ashram in the area of healthcare is His thoughts on the astral causations behind diseases which He referred to as karma dosham, pitru dosham, and Aradhana dosham. Mention has already been made about the Karmic and Ancestral problems. The third aspect, Aradhana Dosham is related to deviated spiritual practices and the consequent debilities, deformities, and devolution occurring in the individual’s soul.
Aradhana Dosham is also related to spiritual mobility through spiritual zones of varying evolutionary nature with their peculiar color, effects, and hierarchies. Though the sages have mentioned it, the concept of spiritual zones and their relation to health issues is an area that has not been yet explored properly.
It forms part of the discourse on spiritual pollution, which directly and indirectly affects the measure of virtue and the evolutionary orientation of the soul. Spiritual pollution is the stagnation of souls in lower astral planes with its adverse effects on health, one’s progeny, and family life.
The tranquility of the soul is experienced in higher spiritual planes above the hierarchies of spirits, celestials, angels, gods, and goddesses. The astral planes up to heaven are related to pleasure and pain, name and form. By their worship and spiritual practices, the souls get connected to these lower astral planes, which produce only dual experiences of pain and pleasure, sorrow and happiness. In other words, it is the abode of base desires or ashta raga- the eight-fold bindings of the soul.
So long as the soul is subject to ashta raga, there will be imbalances and variations in the karmic and spiritual earnings affecting the measure of the soul’s virtue and evolutionary growth. At the present time, mankind is mostly related to these lower spiritual planes; hence the possibility of enduring health remains an unrealistic dream.
We have mentioned that enduring health is the result of tranquility arising from the soul’s composure in higher spiritual planes where all dualities disappear and the soul remains in its state of purity and positive spiritual emanations. It is the plane where Oneness of God and Oneness of Humanity become an actual experience. This spiritual transition is the basis for a healthy society and necessary to achieve lasting peace, enduring health and progress.
Mankind, therefore, requires the guidance of such a spiritual master, who has transcended the highest spiritual planes. The Supra-mental evolution mentioned by Sri Aravind Ghosh is related to this spiritual transition. Before embarking on this path of higher spiritual transition, one has to get rid of the karmic, ancestral, and spiritual baggage by rightly establishing oneself in the path of such a spiritual master.
The dialogue on human health can become more meaningful only when the subjective and astral aspects mentioned above are given due attention and thought. Santhigiri Ashram beckons each and all to such a practical path of higher spiritual transition, health, and peace.
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