sangom
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Dear Shri Sangom,
You are right about what constitutes interfering with one's karma. Think about this. Why should anyone be endowed with spiritual power if it is not to be put into use? The answer I think is to understand what constitutes normal use of power. It is the responsibility of one who possesses the power to ensure that he doesn't interfere with spiritual laws such as the law of karma.
But the fact is as spiritual ability goes up there is an automatic tendency to do the right things which are in sync with nature because the higher the spiritual ability, the greater it syncs with nature and an automatic safety mechanism operates.
My take on what constitutes normal use of power wrt healing, is this. One has to consider the nature of a person's body. Ayurveda sheds some light on the nature of physical body. It says that a person is born with certain type of constitution. As long as that constitution is maintained he would be of normal health. Disorders start when the proportions of the three doshas that make up the constitution deviate from the original or natural proportion of that person.
It seems to me we are not violating karma as long as we stick to maintaining his original constitution. IMO karma is violated only when one's nature is sought to be altered but not otherwise. Spiritual power is the only means by which nature can be altered or spiritual laws can be violated. That is probably the reason why caution needs to be exercised in the use of spiritual power. However as I mentioned, the safety mechanism automatically kicks in when spiritual energy syncs more and more with the spiritual reality.
Overall, I think there is no cause for worry, especially given the fact, that the spiritual power is put to the use of expanding knowledge and for creating greater awareness and acceptance of spirituality.
My dear Sravna,
To the best of my knowledge and understanding, Ayurveda does not say that a person is born with certain type of constitution and that as long as that constitution is maintained he would be of normal health. On the contrary, Ayurveda says that the three doshas (vAta, pitta & kapha) should be well-balanced if a person has to have sound health. Ayurveda recognises imbalance in these tridoshas even in new-born children and has methods of treating such conditions.
Our Ayurveda Acaryas must definitely have known about spiritual energy and its various aspects. But they did not consider it advisable to cure people through the spiritual route but chose to find out medicinal herbs and preparations from them as medicines to be used in the cure of illnesses. Now, I think this is a point which is worthy of consideration.
You are silent on putting the spiritual energy to get some food packets for hungry children; may I presume that the spiritual energy is helpless in such matters?