by Dr. Ekkirala Krishnamacharya Book Presentation Overview General

Today's topic for the lecture is, 'The Science of Spiritual Healing'. It is one of the foremost topics of discussions and explanations in the modern Age. The word 'Cure' is gradually being replaced by the word 'Healing' in the modern age, the difference being the difference in the concept and the process itself. For example, when we take medical science from the point of view of disease and its 'cure', then we are inclined to use the word 'cure'. But if we take medical science from the point of view of health and rectification and not disease; then we are inclined to use the word 'healing', that's all. It is the formation of the basic concept that makes the difference.

In the Modern Age, almost until now medical science means the science of disease and its cure, more than the science of health and its maintenance. This we have to accept. That is, we have a rather negative approach than a positive approach towards medical science. I think, that requires a little bit of rectification. Since the age is a scientific age, an age of growing scientific awareness, I think the word healing is gradually replacing the word 'cure', for the simple reason that the word 'Healing' is more positive in its concept and approach than the word 'Cure'.

An attempt to cure the disease is basically different from an attempt to rectify the constitution and re-establish health. Health must be the ideal and not the disease. A cure of disease should not be the ideal. In fact, health must be the ideal and a distortion from health should be understood as a disease which has no existence of its own. A rectification and re-establishment of health should be the ideal. I think it is this spirit that is making us use the word 'healing', more than the word 'cure'.

Another aspect I want to bring to your notice is that the medicine we use to cure diseases plays only a minor role in the process of healing. When we take the viewpoint of the Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul, it is only twenty percent that medicine has its role in the process of healing. The remaining eighty percent is based upon the other factors; for example, rectifying our behaviour, our habits like food, drink, sleep, rest, work and sex etc. This includes the major portion of the process of healing, whereas the application of medicine and the role of medicine in cure plays only a twenty percent.

These are the two factors which are to be remembered when we consider the process of healing from the modern point of view. Of course the word healing is predominantly used in a spiritual sense by many people rather in a religious sense. It should be used in a more comprehensive way. Medical science and its application should also be part of healing