Divine Healing (group)

Divine Healing was a drop-in healing group in Pune One. Maneesha writes about it in the Darshan Diary Get Out of Your Own Way!, 23 Apr 1976:

Divine healing is conducted over a period of three consecutive days in each monthly ten-day camp, by Swami Anand Bodhisattva**, who has been part of a group of sannyasins who used to tour in many parts of India, acting as healers and talking of Bhagwan Shree.

Bhagwan has spoken on healing recently, saying:

The healer is not really a healer because he is not a doer. Healing happens through him; he has just to annihilate himself. To be a healer really means not to be. The less you are, the better healing will happen. The more you are, the more the passage is blocked. God, or the totality, or whatsoever you prefer to call it, is the healer. The whole is the healer.

An ill person is one who has simply developed blocks between himself and the whole, so something is disconnected. The function of the healer is to reconnect it. But when I say the function of the healer is to reconnect it, I don’t mean that the healer has to do something. The healer is just a function. The doer is God, the whole.

In the mass healing, those wishing to be healed sit together in a group, preferably with eyes closed. It is good to be in an attitude of receptivity and openness, of trust in the possibility of healing happening. As energy from the "healers" begins to flow around and towards them, the healees should allow their bodies to move freely and spontaneously, but verbal expression should be held in.

Those acting as healers or channels, form a ring around the healees. To kirtan music (the wild and cheerful traditional indian music used for celebrations and festive occasions), the healers dance and run, leap and whirl, completely abandoned, in an effort to help their own energy to flow easily. During this period, Bodhisattva, a demonical-looking figure raised on a platform above the group, seduces and entices the mass build-up of energy to flow freely.

After five to ten minutes, those on the outer circle cease their dancing and stand facing the healees, pouring out their energies towards them. The healing session is then concluded with a brief chant of "Om, shanti, shanti, shanti" (Aum, peace, peace, peace).

Before the mass healing on the second day, individual healing is demonstrated. The sannyasin who wishes to be healed lies on his back, having placed around his neck a second specially charged mala which is kept only for healing.

The three sannyasins who are to assist, sit near him, hands gently resting on his body. One sits at the healee's feet, another at his head, and the third near his abdomen. If there is a polarity of energies at either end, preferably two lovers whose energies are strongly drawn to each other, this facilitates the rapid flow of energy through the healee's body, flushing out any blocks. All four participants are instructed to allow their bodies any spontaneous movement....

Healing becomes almost an experience of prayer, an experience of God, of love, of the whole.

The groups timeline chart in The Sound of Running Water indicates that this group only had brief run from Oct to Nov 1975; however, Sarlo remembers seeing it in Buddha Hall in 1978-79 or so, and Maneesha writing about it in Apr 1976 also gives it a longer run.

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