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        Prayer is not a begging statement

       Unfortunately, now prayers done by most of us are begging statements crying for help. Our intellect is so much over thrown by our emotional mind that we seldom realize that our own thoughts create our life pattern  and not anyone else outside. Prayers are powerful positive statements for our emotional minds and not for any unknown God outside our territory. We will discuss about God later in this section.

      If some one believes in an omnipresent  God present outside , even then a begging prayer is an insult to the omnipresent and omniscient God. When God is omniscient how can someone beg for things?

      Prayer in the form of begging statements makes one weak. In deep troubles such begging statements out of ignorance might help initially to lesson the sorrow of the mind. But in the long run, the agitations of the mind still continue and so does sorrows. Without strengthening the intellect and increasing positive thoughts, sorrows in life cannot be overcome. This is why begging prayer statements goes futile.

       All Vedic Prayers and so does other spiritual traditions prayers are powerful positive statements asking for an attitude to know the reality.

God give me the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed  

Give me courage to change things that must be changed

And the wisdom to distinguish from one from the other

      This is a good prayer for purification of the mind that we have been discussing through the Pancha Bhootas or the five steps. 

  A Pagan serenity prayer beautifully summarizes the essence of the five steps of Pancha Bhoota as follows.

Gods and Goddess grant me:

The power of Water, to accept with ease and grace what I cannot change

The power of Fire, for the energy and courage the things I can

The power of Air, for the ability to know the difference.

And the power of Earth, for the strength to continue my path.

And the Power of Space, to know our Real Self (Sakthi's addition)

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            Five steps (Pancha Bhootas) leads to Awareness
 

      The five steps of mind and body purification in Pancha Bhoota healing helps to transcend to Pure awareness. Purification really means to be in thought. Something that is pure means that it has only one entity. Like pure gold means it has only gold and no other metal. So purification of mind means to have only one thought that is awareness.  When the mind has innumerable thoughts through the contact of sense organs  of external world, it is impure. When the mind is with drawn to the interior to go the awareness state of one thought, then the mind  is said to be in the pure state.

      Purification of mind in all healing and spiritual traditions means to with draw the mind inward to have only one pure (single) thought that leads to pure awareness. However the nature of the mind is to have many thoughts which it acquires through contact with objects.

      Mind is like a kid running after attractive objects. A kid can focus or concentrate on his or  her school lesson only if the mind is available for that activity. A parent or a teacher cannot teach a kid in a place like a shopping mall where lot of people come and go, because the kid's mind will go outward towards watching the people or events. So the best way to help the kid focus on the lesson is by creating an environment that makes the mind less distracted. Such a place is called school. This is not different from a temple or church of worship.

     All religious and spiritual traditions have the fundamental aim to give this environment to the people who follow that traditions. It is sad to see later these organizations instead of allowing the individual to grow and mature inside, use them ruthlessly for the external growth of the organization. For this external growth in the size of the organization, it is does not hesitate to twist and corrupt the knowledge given by the master. This straying away from the "Truth" taught by the master, then breeds only hatred and leads to all religious wars, when the individuals fail to grow inwards and transcend to awareness state.

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                            The Mystery behind placebo effect
 

It is the ability to transcend to the realm of the self that brings healing and since most of the common man is unaware of this transcendence, it is often called as a miracle. However it is no miracle for a spiritual master who knows about the power of transcending and awareness. Nevertheless such a spiritual master may or may not perform such a miracle for his own  body problem, because it depends upon them whether to spend time to solve the mortal body problems or dive deep further into the realm of pure Consciousness.

   Read this very please  interesting article  to read.  how pharmaceutical companies has to overcome this placebo effects to show a drug effect is not a placebo.

   All these explanations causes doubts about the mode of action of medications that passes out the placebo effect, for example the powerful antibiotics. Even if an individual trusts or not the antibiotics works. Here we have to understand the nature of chemicals. All chemicals have their own inherent property and that is the law of nature. Why chemicals behave in their own way is due to their intrinsic property, which is explained as awareful intelligence. We will discuss this later.

   Having  given you the information about the power of healing through transcendence  to the awareness state, you would be interested to know how to bring about this healing. One can achieve this through many means. We initially gave you the five steps of Pancha Bhoota healing.  One or the combination of a few or all of them these five  steps help to transcend to the awareness state, the source of healing. Whatever medical system you may do, you will find these five steps apply. Pancha Bhoota healing system is  unique because it uses all the five steps that will lead to the healing source.

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     The Miracle of Faith Healing
 

      Healing miracles performed by all traditions in the world are based on turning the mind inwards. There are several methods employed for turning the mind inwards. "Belief" or "faith" is the common ground in all healing traditions. Belief is based without the support of the intellect and so is often referred as blind. Whereas faith is based on the intellect's support. Belief can change any time to any extreme but not with the case of faith. Therefore Vedic tradition is always keen in strengthening the inquiring attitude which leads to faith or "Shraddha" in Sanskrit.

      Hope you can now understand how miracles happen when individuals have faith, which means they transcend into the awareness state.