Cosmic Update.

EXAMPLES WHEN SAINTS TOOK OVER OTHER'S BAD KARMA

Lahiri Mahasaya

During the summer of 1895 his stalwart body developed a small boil on the back.

He protested against lancing; he was working out in his own flesh the evil karma of some of his disciples.

Swami Yukteshwar

Fortunately for his disciples, Sri Yukteshwar burned many of their sins in the fire of his severe fever in Kashmir.

Jesus Christ

With his divine powers, his body could never have been subjected to death by crucifixion if he had not willingly cooperated with the subtle cosmic law of cause and effect.

He thus took on himself the consequences of others’ karma, especially that of his disciples. In this manner they were highly purified and made fit to receive the omnipresent consciousness which later descended on them.

Therese Neuman

Therese has the power, through prayer, of working out on her own body the ailments of others.

The saint's abstinence from food dates from a time when she prayed that the throat disease of a young man of her parish, then preparing to enter holy orders, be transferred to her own body.

Master's at Astral & Causal Cosmos

A master who achieves this final freedom may elect to return to earth as a prophet to bring other human beings back to God, or like myself he may choose to reside in the astral cosmos.

There a savior assumes some of the burden of the inhabitants’ karma and thus helps them to terminate their cycle of reincarnation in the astral cosmos and go on permanently to the causal spheres.

Or a freed soul may enter the causal world to aid its beings to shorten their span in the causal body and thus attain the Absolute Freedom.

Why Saints take over others Karma ?

A strong man may assist a weak one by helping the latter carry a heavy load; a spiritual superman is able to minimise the physical and mental troubles of his disciples by assuming a part of their karmic burdens.

By a secret yogic method, the saint unites his mind and astral vehicle with those of a suffering individual; the disease is conveyed, wholly or in part, to the yogi's fleshly form.

Having harvested God on the physical field, a master is no longer concerned with the body.

He considers himself fortunate in being able to render such aid.

A guru's work in the world is to alleviate the sorrows of mankind, whether through spiritual means or intellectual counsel or will power or physical transfer of disease.

The spiritual law does not require a master to become ill whenever he heals another person.

Healings ordinarily take place through the saint's knowledge of various methods of instantaneous cure in which no hurt to the spiritual healer is involved.

On rare occasions, however, a master who wishes to quicken greatly his disciples evolution may then voluntarily work out on his own body a large measure of their undesirable karma.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Autobiography of a Yogi