वृक्ष कबहुँ न फल भखै, नदी न संचय नीर।

परमार्थ के कारने संतन धरा शरीर।

– कबीर

We often wonder, how come some people heal so quickly? While for others the same medicine doesn’t work. Some people keep going from one Doctor, healer or Therapist to another, while others heal with Homeopathy, Ayurveda or Alternative medicine.

The answer is karma. No one can heal beyond their karma. When the time is right, faith also comes in traditional healing methodology. So as a rule we never convince anyone. Yet miraculously people come from far and wide and give us an opportunity to facilitate their healing. There again, whatever healing they are ready for karmically happens. That is why, we give no guarantees or take credit. Simply because we cannot. It is all God.

But Why Sewa?

Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.” – Earl Nightingale

Why do we need to help others? Or to be of service? Sometimes after one or two sessions guides have stopped the healing and told us, that’s all good karma the person has to heal. That is why, despite the best medical some people aren’t able to heal.

Over the years, many people were advised Sewa as a remedy for further healing. Sewa (सेवा) or Service is an act done to serve another. Not a gesture of our magnanimity, but rather as an opportunity for us to offer help to fellow beings. To be hands of God, caregivers. Come to think of it, we only help ourselves. What we sow is what we reap.

Though the ideal Sewa is Nishkaam Sewa, Selfless service, which gives us Grace and merit in future lifetimes. However when you have heavy karmic baggage to clear in current life time, it is advised by spiritguides to do good karma wherever possible. Sakaam Sewa, means you are knowingly doing sewa to gain merit and blessings to assuage your current suffering.

Another benefit of Sewa is behaviour change! How? Most of us are hardened in our behaviour, not knowing that it is harming not just ourselves but also our relationships. When we start serving others, caring for others, even though mechanically at first, slowly we see a shift! They begin to acquaint themselves with the suffering of others, their horizon broadens and hearts open up to the rare virtue of empathy. Also, the blessings and good wishes of those we help, facilitate our transformation! As Spiritguides often say: Sewa helps even the hardened criminals improve their behaviour. Without it, let alone this life, future lives will also not be happy! – “अपने व्यवहार में परिवर्तन किए बिना, ये जीवन तो क्या, आने वाले जीवन भी सुखी नहीं होंगे।”

Types of Sewa

The most important thing in an act of Sewa is the bhava, or intention. Do it from the heart, and with the intention that you are offering it to the Lord.

Physical Sewa: Volunteering in orphanages, old age homes, shelters etc. This is important because of the direct blessings you can receive, by doing it wholeheartedly.

Many people shy away from Sewa, claiming it is too difficult, time-consuming or that they are too busy. Forgetting that there are no shortcuts to healing. Sewa is difficult no doubt, but you can see it as karmic difficulties being cleared through voluntary suffering of sewa. In short, see it as voluntary suffering, the wise men advice.

Annasewa (अन्न सेवा, Food Charity): Offering food, meals, fruits, whatever possible to the poor or needy. Especially young and old. if you are coming for Karmic Healing, it would naturally considerable amount of suffering in life, and karmic baggage on the work front. This weekly Anna Sewa (अन्नवा) would be necessary to see some positive changes in 8-10 months after the Healing. The simple thing would be to Feed at least 5-6 people weekly, especially poor children personally. This will also bring improvement in overall well-being. If due to health reasons, you can’t do it yourself, perhaps you are bedridden then your family members can do it on your behalf. Also, you can start with an Online Food charity or wherever you get an opportunity.

Food charity is best for money blocks, and also for digestive disorders.

One more thing that is effective in Anna Sewa is Astrologically appropriate items. If you believe in astrology that is. Ask your astrologer to recommend. For example, if Moon is negative in your birth chart, then offering Milk is considered beneficial by some. So you can donate Milk packets, directly, or via NGOs working in this field.

Prarthana Sewa (Prayer as Sewa): For those who can’t step out or serve in any above way, or are bed-ridden offering prayers for those in need is big start. We all know at least one person who needs a prayer. God knows, we too need for someone to pray for us. Pray that others may be healed, comforted or find peace, healing and well being. In mysticism, such prayers are called Prayer for Intercession. Simply put, seeking divine intervention in other people’s life.

After every healing session you would be guided as to which specific Sewa is good for you.

Frequency? Depends on you entirely, daily, to weekly or fortnightly, which is the minimum. The dose of a medicine has to be as per the suffering, and Sewa is after all a spiritual medicine!

जो भी मिले उसे ईश्वर स्वरूप समझ कर सेवा करें,

और सुकून मिलेगा। 🙏🌸

Sewa means serving people outside of family, or strangers – people who can’t do anything for us in return. Family members we are anyways meant to help or take care of – that is our responsibility. Having said that, though true sewa begins at home! For example, there is no use doing extensive sewa and volunteering at religious institutions or orphanages when you don’t care for the family members at home, this includes their physical, emotional, financial and yes mental well-being.

Similarly, there is no point in having extensive CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) programs, when you don’t care about your employees’ well-being, pay them well, or fix the toxic work environment and create a congenial and safe work environment. Many such billionaires towards the end of their life, do big philanthropy projects to show off their magnanimity or as a PR exercise. Like shamelessly posting pictures of our tiny public service acts on social media is equal to bragging about your generosity to others. It is like increased religiousity and piety in post-retirement – futile. But God sees their truth. That is why such public projects seldom bring true change or satisfaction to these so-called public philanthropists.

So if you want to step into philanthrophy, take inpiration from nature. As a poem once said:

Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth,
“You owe Me.”
Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.

-Hafiz

Just any good karma has it merit, any occasion we hold back from helping others, fellow beings, let alone harm, brings demerit. Becomes part of our karmic baggage. Why? Because inaction or akarmayata (अकर्मण्यता) also a Karmic choice. So beware!

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”
– Muhammad Ali

Gupt Daan (गुप्त दान, Anonymous Service): Sewa needs to done without any public display or knowledge, following the traditional advice if ‘Gupt daan’ or Secret Charity. This was protection a person from ego inflation etc. Ideally only you and receiver may know. Because God sees it all.

If you feel like bragging, posting pictures in social media or feeling proud about it, be careful. That is why, old saying goes, “Neki kar kuye mein daal” If you do anything good, immediately forget about it. Stay free of doership, else you would an inflatable ego to deal with, in the longer run nothing else.

And yes, have same behaviour publicly and privately.

Gau Daan: Donating a cow. This daan or donation is often suggested when a person is at their end of life, and in great suffering, unable to get freed from the mortal coil.

Traditional wisdom says Donating a good cow to someone who would care for her. This remedy is quite effective as we have seen.

Second option is adopting a cow, but for her natural life and third is donating to a gaushala (cow shelter), sewa as feed to cow.

Gaudaan is ideally suggested when last bit of karmic clearance is left. Often that is when Guides suggest. Right at the end. As some brave souls choose to clear their karmic baggage through physical suffering towards the end of life, so that they go lighter!

Why Sewa is important for our Future generations too?

Yesterday, I again had to turn down a desparate client for Karmic Healing session.

Reason?

The Spiritguides said, that the person doesn’t have enough good karma to heal yet. They further adviced the person to do some Sewa in course of a month and check again.

It was difficult for me to share it with the client and it was even more difficult for the client to accept. I understand it is difficult for anyone to accept that not every thing in our lives would heal, not every person gets better. One day we realise that money cannot heal all our ills.  Somethings are part of our prarabdha, our life script. Like a child with Autism spectrum, learning disability or a person with mental disorder. Sometimes it doesn’t get better, we have all seen our loved ones suffer and even die.

This brings me to an important insight I want to share. This came to us during a series of Family Tree Healing sessions, for families suffering from Pitr Dosha or Ancestral curses. As always they were all suffering due to bad karma of their ancestors, who at the price of their sucess and power, forgot the simple doctrine of karma. What we sow is what we reap.

They frequently indulged in bad karma, generation after generation, feeling invincible or exempted by the law of nature. Mistreating the poor, helpless and weak, trapped in the darkness of their arrogance, greed or lust. Often they harmed people within or around their families. God does not accept bribes and nothing goes unregistered or stays hidden. Everything is recorded. Generations tell these tales as they suffer.

But surprisingly, the common theme in these families, where gradually over subsequent generations, fortunes and well-being declined, was the lack of emphasis on good karma – via Sewa, selfless service. Let alone devotion.

In a family, the soul of their grandmother revealed in dismay, “This family never did sewa how could they ever flourish?..they never helped anyone or each other.” In another family, another Great-grandmother said, “They didn’t do any Sewa..so declined” Lastly, an ancestor said, “This family neither did good karma nor Sewa…”

The fate of these families presents a cautionary tale. Remedy? As was given to a Sikh family by their ancestor,  ‘Vand Chhako”..(वंड छको, Share your wealth, good fortune with others) do sewa. Another grandmother said, Teach men devotion so they will be freed of their greed and lust. And to women teach Sewa so that they learn to help others, bring family close.”

As healers, we come across many such cases where we see a person or family suffer but we can’t do anything beyond a point, just because we can only heal as much as a person is karmically ready for.

Healing happens by grace and miracles happen only when one has faith, and for both to happen one needs good karmas.

Our suggestion is to stay humble and learn to share with others and care for others. No matter how much you earn give a portion to someone less privileged than you. If you can’t spare some money then spend some time with the underprivileged. Go to orphanages and read stories or play with kids, visit old age homes and give emotional care to elders. Don’t wait to do charity or sewa till you face a downfall, start doing it when the grass is green in your garden.

Remember blessings are like umbrellas, they will protect you when it pours. It’s only wise to buy an umbrella when the sun is shining brightly, rather than hunting for one when it’s raining.

Healers can only help you when your soul is ready to heal  and you have good karmas to heal your life. We are just the medium to initiate your healing journey, ultimately it’s the choices that you had made in past lives or in present life which will enable your smooth healing.

So, while you take of yourself, and your family’s needs, please spare a thought for your family tree and future generations as well. This reminds me of a famous verse by Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji…

“दे सिवा बर मोहे ईहे, शुभ कर्मन ते कभुं न डरूं..।।”
(O Shiva! Give me this boon, that I may never shrink from doing good deeds..)

– Abhishek Joshi