Questioner: I just wanted to ask about alternative therapies and...
Sadhguru: I'm sorry?
Questioner: About therapies like acupuncture, shiatsu, Reiki and I
wanted to cover aura healing just in case I ever got interested in it.
About how they affect you as a practitioner.
Because what I read in mystic musings If you give reiki to somebody, you're actually
taking on their karmic... karmic patterns.
It was a bit concerning.
Sadhguru: Why is it such a concern?
Questioner: I think, I've got enough Karma on my own ,so..don't really
need it...
Sadhguru: You don't want to take any of their stuff?
Questioner: Not..
Particularly no.
Sadhguru: Oh..
Questioner: got handling my own stuff.
Sadhguru: So...
Alternative therapies...
I think, we did not really talk about therapies like acupuncture or pressure, or
any of those things.
We were talking about healing systems, energy healers.
It's only in that context we said this, not in
terms of acupressure or acupuncture, or massage or anything of this..
People, who are trying to do metal with the energy because you do not know all
the nuts and bolts of how this system is made, just meddling with one thing
without knowing the other can cause various consequences, not just about
taking on karma.
It can cause various consequences, which are not necessary,
which is very immature to do, but alternative systems of treatment either
in the form of Ayurveda or homeopathy or acu pressure, or whatever, there
are alternative methods of treatment.
They are different.
Healing systems are different.
We were saying, that only with the reference to healing systems, not of
alternative systems of treatment.
Questioner: sorry can I just ask then.. in terms of Reiki,
which is about working with people's energy.
If you are a Reiki practitioner, how do you protect yourself then from taking
on karmic..
Sadhguru: By not doing it.
Because these are all things, that have come out of dropouts from the diss
ministries..
You meddling with another person's life process without knowing
the whole of it -is irresponsible!
It is like, you saw.. you know these days you can see videos of major surgeries
happening.
So you saw a video like this, you observed everything very carefully.
So tomorrow somebody has a problem, you take a saving razor and decide to do a
surgery upon him.
I'm telling you, some people may survive this.
People have survived such things.
Isn't it?
Many times in battle zones, in nature, when accidents
happen people have performed absolutely cruel surgeries upon somebody and they
have survived.
But that doesn't mean, that's the way to do surgery.
Isn't it?
That's not the way to do surgery.
Isn't it so?
It's just that some people might have survived such surgeries in extraordinary
conditions it was done.
So any kind of meddling with other people's energies
is very juvenile, it's coming out of a certain immaturity and a certain
egoistic state of wanting to play God, which is not necessary.
If it is coming out of compassion- what's your
problem? let everybody's Karma come to you as
long as he's relieved what is your problem? that's not it.
If you want to play God with gloves on, it doesn't work like that.
God didn't play the games with you, the conspiracy with you with gloves on.
He got himself into you to play this game.
It's only the priest, who told you, that he's sitting up there and watching everything.
But look at the way life is happening - the source of creation got it,
got itself trapped in you.
Isn't it?
Yes.
Isn't it so?
Unless you have that kind of involvement, you don't meddle with
such things.