Importance of adding Prayers for Spiritual Wellbeing
When we prepare or broadcast Sanjeevini healing remedies, our prayers should include the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being of the recipients. While it's common to focus on physical and mental health, including spiritual well-being is essential for good reasons.
Importance of including prayers for spiritual wellbeing.
A person's spiritual well-being is foundational. It influences their physical and mental state. When we pray for someone's spiritual health, we're invoking blessings for their inner peace, surrender, serenity through a profound connection to the divinity within them. This sacred inner connection fosters healing from within, providing valuable guidance, strength and resilience throughout the journey of recovery and rejuvenation.
The human personality is often understood through three distinct dimensions:
- The Gross Physical Body: This is our tangible, visible form.
- The Subtle Body: This encompasses our inner faculties, including the mind, intellect, memory, and ego.
- The Spiritual Dimension of Consciousness or Awareness: This divine dimension is often referred to as the Self, Soul, Atman, Divinity, God, Brahman, Sat Chit Ananda ( Infinite Existence, Infinite Consciousness, Infinite Bliss)
The first two dimensions—the physical and subtle bodies—are readily apparent to us. In fact, our identification with them is so strong that we instinctively believe we are primarily our body, animated by our mind, which collectively forms our personality.
When asked "Who are you?", our immediate and spontaneous response often involves pointing to our physical body. We might elaborate by describing ourselves as a body endowed with a personality, defined by our mind, intellect, ego, talents, successes, failures, belief systems, habits and more.
Spiritual wisdom ( Atma Jnana) gently, clearly, patiently reminds us that our deepest reality, our true essence, is the dimension of Pure Consciousness, Pure awareness, Atman, Soul. It is because of Consciousness that all life experiences become possible. Without the animating presence of Consciousness within the body, senses, and mind, the intricate drama of life, with its unique name and form, would instantly cease.
Consciousness is an eternal, infinite, and non-dual dimension of being. It is often described as the limitless ocean of silence, stillness, peace, and serenity that resides within each one us. This inherent awareness or consciousness is self-luminous; it has no beginning or end. It is immortal, It is our true, unchanging radiant essence.
The Mandukya Upanishad describes Consciousness (Atma or the Self) as:
शान्तं शिवमाद्वैतं चतुर्थं मन्यन्ते स आत्मा स विज्ञेयः || 7 ||
Shantam Shivam Advaitam Chaturtham Manyante sa Atma sa vij~neyah || 7 || - Mandukya Upanishad
The Self or Atma or Pure Consciousness is Supreme Peace, Supreme Auspiciousness (bliss) It is considered as the Fourth State (or Turyam - the eternal witness of the three states of waking, dreaming and deep sleep).This is the Atman. This is to be understood and realized by a spiritual seeker.
The spiritual seeker’s journey is one of awakening to the eternal Self: "Aham Brahmasmi"—"I am Pure Consciousness." "I am Atma." To live from this awakened state is to dwell in the very core of our being, beyond the vagaries of the mind. Established in this truth, we transcend suffering. We discover the deep, enduring peace of the Self within, which allows us to face the greatest of trials of life with equanimity and serenity.
The more fully we abide in our immortal nature, the more intimately we feel our Oneness with the core of all beings. From this sacred space of unity, our healing prayers radiate with greater clarity and power, silently touching others in the realm of pure Consciousness, of pure selfless unconditional love.
It is important to remember that Wellness is not just the absence of physical and mental illness. It is a state of Wholeness where there is balance and harmony between all the interconnected facets of life - the physical, mental, emotional and most importantly the Spiritual.
By addressing the whole person, our prayers become more comprehensive, holistic, and supportive of true healing.
