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tinue to lead a normal, healthy life for three score years and ten at least. We have also been practising kirtan and quite a lot of chanting of the mantra Aum.
All of these techniques help to bring about balance and harmony. It must be said that many of the people who are HIV positive, particularly in the west, have not hitherto been leading very balanced and harmonious lives, so this has been one focus of our attention. I have also introduced rather sooner than I would with many classes, the idea and understanding of the chakras, so that people can learn to understand how and why they have got themselves into this state, and how they may begin to improve the situation. It gives them a chance, through the symbolism of the chakras, to understand themselves better, to learn to accept themselves and to love themselves. So; discussion of and meditation on the chakra system have proved to be of great value.
In addition to these classical practices taught to me by Paramahamsaji, we are also having very interesting results with the use of amaroli (urine therapy). Before I introdu practice of amaroli to the students, I had a meeting with Dr. Arthur Lincoln Pauls, who has written a book on the subject. I was a little bit concerned because in all the amaroli books they say that you must not be taking any drugs, you must have a pure vegetarian diet and so forth. In addition to not necessarily being vegetarian, I know that many of my students are taking very strong drugs, AZT, DD1 and massive quantities of antibiotics, none of which, incidentally, have yet cured one single case of AIDS. So, I went to see Dr. Arthur Lincoln Pauls and I explained the problem. He said, “Let them take the first urine of the day. This is enough in order to avoid recycling of the drugs."
So, I would just like to tell you briefly the extraordinary and very encouraging results we are having from amaroli. Applied externally, it is helping to completely clear a number of skin afflictions from which HÌV positive people suffer, such as candida, thrush, molloscums, and even Kaposi's Sarcomoi. In addition, many of the students ate now taking amaroli internally on their own, starting with one session in the morning. Gradually, some of them build up until they are recycling their entire day's supply. Results are very encouraging. Their energy levels are improving and their T-cell counts are going up.
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