Five Great Healers Speak Here

Author(s): Nancy, Esmond Gardner
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing House

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GURUDEV SHREE CHITRABHANU
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and actions, storing them away until they come back to reflect upon you and make you moody or sick according to the images you have given it.
I am speaking only of the karma we build from day to day in this one lifetime. It is action and reaction all the way. Your moods change according to the subjective mind's mirror reflecting its images on your objective mind. Be very, very careful of what you put into it.
Sometimes it happens that a man or woman can seem cheerful and normal just before going home to commit suicide. Something that had been fermenting a long time in his subjective mind, erupted and he lost all desire to live.
When a person feels unnecessary to anyone including himself, from that day, his life-energy begins to die. So if you would feel useful, and to feel so you must be so, learn to serve. Those people who serve mankind give energy and therefore receive it. Great people work hard and live long. Everyone senses the strong vibrations on those who give. Even their thoughts are blessings.
Somebody once asked me what my hobby was. I replied, “To collect blessings, the highest energy. A stamp collection, and so on, remains here on earth, but my colInction of blessings can be transformed into pure energy und accompany me into the universe.” When you help someone and that person speaks to you from the heart, saying, “God bless you,” this is a valuable possession. Store it.
If you do nothing for anybody but yourself, if you really enjoy and take pleasure in the act of meting out death to living creatures in the more savage killing sports, if you behave cruelly to powerless people or have been generally careless and cold in your attitude toward others, you will become sick. A doctor can give you medicine that may relieve the symptons but create others. A healer can hypnotize you for a few days so that you will