Light of Nonviolence

Author(s): Sushilmuni
Publisher: Vishwa Ahimsa Sangh Delhi

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jured my back doing postures and I called him to help me to heal my back.
I had been diagnosed by a regular medical doctor as having high-blood pressure and a minor kidney problem but the doctor did not prescribe any effective means of combating these problems. Shortly after I saw the medical doctor, he became seriously ill and died from unknown causes.
When Dr. Albert Sutton came into my room, he fell on his knees at my bedside and wept joyfully, he was so glad to see me.
“Oh, Guruji, I am so much better now, thanks to you. But what has happened to you?"
I told him and I asked if he had a medicine to cure me of this problem. He told me that the real cause of my back injury was not Hatha Yoga practices but my poor circulatory system and that not enough blood was getting to my muscle tissue. He said that the medicine he had from the roots of some Indian plants would cure me but that the side effects were known to cause weeping, headaches, incontinence, and bleeding of the stool. I told him that I was not worried and that I would be able to control these undesirable side-effects through my knowledge of causal and subtle bodies.
“But, Guruji,” he protested. “A drug is a drug and no one can change what it will do to your physical body. These things happened beyond the control of your will
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