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expect too much from it. The spiritual side is not there, unless the psychiatrist or the therapist himself actually has it.
If the therapist does have it, how does he or she convey it to the person who needs it? There are two ways that I am going to speak about. First, verbally, the same sort of things you would get on a piece of paper, exactly the same but spoken by a human being. I am stressing this point because here the second way comes in. There is power in words and there is energy that comes out from the person and, according to the degree of energy and power that person has, the recipient of the words will improve. It's called 'good vibes' in America. So, imagine if the therapists of the world, the psychiatrists, and indeed the yoga teachers, the psychologists, the social workers and all of those people whose job it is to help other people in their distress, imagine if they had that spiritual quality. How curative they could be. How well the people would become.
There is just one more point before I finish. The alchemists of the Middle Ages in Europe were said to be able to turn lead into gold. It is said that they used what was called the philosopher's stone, and that it had something to do with sulfur and was very complicated. We know now of course, that was not true. You would need an atomic reaction such as we do not even have nowadays to turn lead into gold. It was only symbolic. It meant that the guru or the spiritual master was turning the gross quality of the aspirant's soul and consciousness into a higher consciousness.
The point is that the guru turns lead not only into gold but also into philosophers' stones, and these then turn more lead into philosophers' stones. What if the therapists of the world, because of what they have received from their guru, also developed the guru quality, which is the quality to channel the energy of God to those persons to produce another guru?
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