Dear devotees,

I will talk about the relationship with other people, who have not reached a clear understanding of the destiny their life is supposed to take in order to reach spiritual perfection. We are speaking here in general terms. We say that a healthy mind will give you help to have a healthy body. Healthy food will give a healthy body; healthy undertaking will help us act in a healthy way. We may consider the world healthy somehow ambiguous, but if we look more closely into it, then we see that it is not. When we are talking about health, we are talking about something what we could call normal or beneficial. Consciousness as such is healthy, but sometimes it becomes covered by material influences.

Healthy relationships

Regarding healthy relationships with other people, they can only be maintained in a healthy state of consciousness. Healthy relationship with other people are desirable at all levels - with children, parents, neighbors, with people who are governing you, people who are being governed by you, people who have different beliefs, people who are materially better situated then you, who are in a materially insecure position, etc. All this type of relationships require health and maturity to be maintained. That maturity is there in the pure consciousness. To purify and elevate our consciousness, we need education. In this way we can say that education is the way to health.

Healthy relationship towards others can not permit at any moment, that we act against the interest of others. Some people claim to be religious and they claim to love others, but then you see them killing. They are killing animals and sometimes even humans. So what type of love is this? We can define that a healthy relationship to others means to be very cautious about their needs and well-being. Even if we can not understand them, their way of action and thinking, then we should at least not act against their healthy interest. A healthy attitude towards the others can also be called ethics.

These points are not so difficult to understand. It becomes difficult when we have to apply it in practice and when we have to relate to others. If we think that our gross interests and our joy justify giving trouble and pain to others, then we are completely wrong. This goes clearly against the principle of healthy behavior and causes in this way the variety of problems we are encountering in this world.

Healthy relationships are focused on dharma. The central characteristic of such type of relationships is the exchange of recommendations about the higher values and ideals of life. The higher we want to go in our spiritual efforts, the more we have to become sensitive about the well-being of others. This is very essential. We have to become positive and constructive in our relationships with others.

Healthy behaviour

The spiritual teachers in all traditions, which can be accepted as healthy, have lent support to the previous considerations. Those, who in the name of their faith, spread hate and fear around, they are all together disqualified to use spiritual terminology. That is not harsh and does not reject any mystical revelation. Those who spread fear and danger towards others either have no mystical revelation in the background or they ignore their mystical revelation to such a degree, that they should be considered criminal elements rather then spiritualists. So even though they may try to use the vocabulary of spiritualist in order to fool others, we should not get confused about it and accept non-spirituality as spirituality.

Healthy behavior is what we are focusing on today. A very important aspectsof healthy behavior is in connection to our body. We have to know to take properly care of our body. The body was not created by you, but you can favor it or harm it. This depends on your action. Then, your wife and your children are also not your production or property. You have been blessed with them by higher powers. And again you can do it right or wrong with them. It is your free will to decide and and do it properly.

Healing circle

In the oida therapy, we call this healthy state of existence, the healing circle. So when we are talking about the healing circle, we are talking about the understanding where everyone has to agree to the universal principles of dharma, which are beyond all sectarian and conditioned considerations. So universal dharma is beyond any denomination. It fits the need of humanity to talk to each other and live on this planet. Mystic Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, they ought to be friends and appreciate each others. This comes by the true nature of humility. Of course, if somebody harms your children, who will tolerate this. When Jesus says: "If somebody hits you on one cheek, then give him also the second cheek", this does not mean that if somebody kills your child, you will not give him the second. This would be a misunderstanding.

So we have to know what is right and wrong, and based on this we have to maintain our relationships. And even if somebody does not share our faith, we need to have a positive relationship with him. Education should achieve this. It is very much required today. A greater majority of people subscribe to some tradition and practice in that way, but they do not get into the real understanding. The teaching which we receive in life and which lead us into a healthy state is worshipable. Practically we consider worshipable everything which has given benefit to us. The faith which nurtures devotion and the mode of goodness in my behavior, that is to be worshiped.

A healthy culture

It is interesting to know, that the word culture comes from cult and that cult means worship. In other words, where there is no worship there is no culture. A healthy culture is the worship of those elements which produce a healthy impact upon our consciousness and behavior. Nowadays there is a strong opposition which is uncluttered. They do not have anything healthy, whether behavior nor worship. The healing circle includes the need of all the living entities. We all need it to go forward and solve our problems. Healing circle is the healthy guideline for the loving cooperation and respect for those with whom we are sharing this existence on this planet. According to this understanding any uncultured behavior is most opposed to our self interest.

We are pursuing something so universal and beneficial so it should be on the agenda of every educational system. A universal ethic principles of all embracing love are the absolute necessity for our people. If we want progress and individual and collective progress, we should be completely dedicated to these ideals. We should be ready to do everything to reach this goal, so that we may give that culture and that education to the next generation. Then they will not have to learn from their own mistakes. When they see and hear what we have learned by our mistakes, they will understand it. If the parents give appropriate instructions, then the children will not have to go through.

A healing circle is very clearly identifiable in the interest of your souls. It is approaching the mode of goodness, sattva guna. But it does not stop there. Culture can take you the supreme interest of worship of divine love. It will lead you to divinity which is there with you since time immemorial. That has been revealed in the mystic tradition, but it can only be understood by those who are entering the mode of goodness and who are acting in this consciousness. You need the qualification in order to get the positive results.

A vision of wellbeing

There are of course many minor and detailed things, as we are mentioning here in this presentation, but these things become so logical and natural. When you enter in the mode of goodness, you will automatically understand, that intoxication is not good. Youwill understand that a faithful relationship to your wife and children is a necessity. It is a symptom accompanying those who want to be constructive.

Perennial psychology is that which provides us a vision of our wellbeing. And it helps us to pass all the tests. As we go further and advance on our own path, we will be able to understand, that a great mystery has accompanied us all the time and that that great mystery of love is the key of our relationship with God and everyone. We can not ignore our origin of existence. We can not ignore that there are rules and regulations in the relationship with others. We should not even think negative about others, and what to speak of speaking and acting in a negative way against others. Good thinking brings good action. And idle thought breed idle talk, breed nonsense action, breeds repeated karmic reaction.

So healthy mind, body, meditation, studies, friends, philosophy, relationship ... This is needed. Consciousness and the capacity of discrimination is 100 % the tool for reaching the higher meaning of our existence. The world is round, divinity is round. The circle represents divinity, the sun, the moon, and therefore symbolically speaking in that surrounding, the healthy attitude we can find God and divinity. No one is excluded there. And if somebody wants to exclude himself, he becomes the primary object of care of others, who are in the consciousness of the healing circle.

Consciousness of health

Those who are surcharged with this mystic understanding, they are always keen to help others to enter into the healthy state of life. Nobody can be healed without entering this consciousness of health. When we see more closely to the vaisnava teaching, we see, that they fit exactly this requirements. They have always focused on these goals. I can not speak for all the mystical traditions of the world, but think that we can declare, that the introduction given here about the healing circle, must be accepted by all the mystical traditions.

Of course, for those who feel insecure or who do not have faith and enthusiasm, they may have a great benefit by studying the Bhagavad-gita. Personally, from there they can learn the proper healthy life style. God Amighty has spoken to the people trough out the ages, to the people who are looking for the higher ideals of life. He has done it in a most reasonable way, so that the people who are receiving and having faith in this revelation may have a benefit. Any type of revelation helps us to be active in a positive way, and this is at the end good for everybody, for mother earth, for the forests, rivers, and everything else.

We all naturally have some type of faith. And this faith has to be guided and educated, to lead us into the healing circle to meet together and work for the common beneficial goal. And whatever does not fit there, it does not belong there. It must be some type of perversion and distortion and must be corrected. But if somebody give problems and trouble to others, he will be sent to jail. Jail is also called durga. People who are only looking for their sensual enjoyment and who are transmigrating the laws of nature and becoming criminal are sent into this jail.

The platform for communication

The goal is to reach divine love, and this will satisfy each and everyone of us, because we are looking for this in our hearts. This love can be found and it reflects the love our creator has for us. The platform for communication between different mystical traditions can be enhanced by the principle and understating of oida therapy. Thus they provide a healthy foundation for the individual healing, as well as for the healing of any relationships which have gone wrong, due to some errors which have been committed to us correct those errors, if we want to change something and correct our relationship, if we want to accommodate each others.

This is the proposal we are making to you today. This is the goal we have set for ourselves. Because our spiritual teachers have taught us, let the whole world be happy. How can they become happy, if we have no clarity, how to live peacefully together? Even tough it may sound to some degree utopist, we can not but prose the thoughts for kind and intelligent reflection. If even one serious conflict could be resolved with the help of theses considerations, or if only one person with the help of this effort can reach spiritual love and higher realizations, that this effort was already justified.

Always your well-wisher,
B.A Paramadwaiti Swami