Healing with compassion

The Economic Times

Healing with compassion
17,Mar,2020

Healing with compassion

Medicine is not an ordinary profession. It is not just technology, because human beings are involved. Go with humanity, humbleness, simplicity. People who simply go into medicine as if they are going into engineering are not the right people to be doctors and physicians. They will treat human beings as mechanisms. They will not feel the spiritual presence of the patient.

When you are involved with human beings, you cannot be so certain. One thinks twice, thrice, before doing anything, because a precious life is involved — life that once gone is gone forever. The individual is irreplaceable, unique; someone who has never been there, and who will never be again. Hesitation is natural. But to decide not to go into medicine is not good.

Go with tremendous humility. Have deep reverence for the patient. And while treating him, just become a vehicle for divine energy. The patient is ill; he cannot connect with existence. He has forgotten the very language of how to heal himself. You cannot blame him; he is in a helpless state.

Somebody who is healthy can be of tremendous help if he becomes a vehicle. If the healthy person is also a man who knows, it can be of more importance, because the divine energy can give you only very subtle hints. They have to be decoded by you. So, drop yourself. Let the divine be there. Go into medicine, and go on meditating.

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