Can one Get relief from Diseases & Problems following devotion?
A woman devotee who requested anonymity asked like this:
“Hare Krishna prabhu. I have gone to many doctors and temples, but, my diseases did not go. I am suffering from one disease after another for the past 4 years. I am thinking of dying, but, I have no courage and fear after reading your posts about becoming ghosts after suicide. So, I am asking you how can I relieve from my pains and go back to Krishna’s dham. Will chanting cure pain? How?”
REPLY:
I am happy that our posts prevented you from suicide thoughts. This itself is the testimony for the success of those posts.
You have mentioned mostly body related problems and finally your wish to go to Krishna.
All the living beings that accepted the bodies have to suffer like this and no one can escape from it.
Where there is a machine, there will be technical problems that require service regularly. Where there is a body, there will be pains.
(Why our problems continue even after initiation if guru accepts our karma? READ HERE!)
All of us felt pain while taking birth. Some people may suffer in teens. Some others in their thirties; Some others in their fifties; If anyone lives without pain in young age, he may have to feel that pain in his second or last part of life.
So, pain is universal for all. Magnitude, time and type may vary.
So, no one is immune to pains/ problems. So, don’t think that you alone are feeling the pain.
Yes, Hare Krishna Maha Manthra will permanently relieve you from your pains of birth, disease, old age and death and take you to the Kingdom of Krishna where there is no material body, but we will have only a spiritual body.
There will be no pains and problems for such spiritual bodies and we will eternally be serving Lord Krishna there. There will be no further births and deaths, diseases, ageing and pains.
(How Chanting protects us from material problems? READ HERE!)
So, this is the permanent solution for you to get relieved from your all pains PERMANENTLY.
I can hear you murmuring: “Please tell me the immediate solution for the pains of this moment. If I get relieved from these pains, I will peacefully do the devotional practices to go to Krishna”.
Take these suggestions that may help to Get relief from Diseases & Problems following devotion:
(i) If you are not observing Ekadasi Fast, start that immediately as it cleanses your digestive and immune system and refreshes your body; Plus, you get the mercy of Krishna too.
(ii) Also follow all the four regulative principles suggested by Srila Prabhupada that will keep your body and mind healthy. Daily take only the food offered to Krishna.
(iii) Consult a good doctor and get treated. In this modern world, there are treatments for almost all the ailments. If you chant Hare Krishna and also take treatments, those treatments will positively work for you without fail.
(iv) Pray to Krishna to give you good health and to chant 16 rounds every day if you like to go back to Lord.
(v) Don’t be alone. If you start to spend as much time as possible in the sathsangha of devotees, their simple and encouraging life style will help you forget your own painful health.
(vi) Always see who are struggling more in life than you. Don’t see those who are healthy & wealthy. This will give you mental strength to bear the pain due to health.
(Is Changing religion to come out of all problems right? READ HERE!)
(vii) It may be difficult to advance in devotion as an individual as our past karma pulls us. So, accept a good guru from a bonafied sampradhaya and get diksha from him. Then, follow the diksha rules and vows sincerely.
Since a guru is capable of bearing any kind of pains because of the support of Krishna, he will relieve you from all material contaminations from you and make you pure. This will help you to go back to the Lord and to get relieved from pains.
Thus, start chanting from today onwards. If you like to know how to chant and follow the daily worshipping of Krishna, read the book Beginners Guide of Krishna Consciousness written by H.H Bhakti Vikas Swami. This will give you all the details about being in touch with Krishna Conscious sadhanas.
Start reading Srila Prabhupada’s books immediately. You can read and forget your pains by reading those books that will come till your life time and even beyond. Yes, the books of Srila Prabhupada, if read and followed sincerely, will come with you even after you leave this body and they will take you to Goloka, that is the only zone in the whole creations of Krishna where there are no pains and problems.
Pains can’t be totally eradicated materially; It can be maintained to the bearable level if you follow the devotional practices sincerely. Krishna will give you sufficient strength to cross the reactions of karma and also to advance in the devotion to Him.
But, the pains can be totally removed if you go back to the lord following the above process.
Hope you are clear about Getting relief from Diseases & Problems following devotion.
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