JESUS' HEALING POWER BY PARAMHAMSA YOGANANDA

Chapter Eighteen
Jesus' Healing Power
By Paramhansa Yogananda, from Inner Culture, March 1935

"And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they
entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. And
Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and anon they
tell Him of her; and they besought Him for her. And He stood over her
and rebuked the fever; and He came and took her by the hand, and
lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she arose and
ministered unto them." [Mark 1:29-31]

The rebuking of the fever signifies that diseases are due to the lack
of proper operation of the conscious forces which govern the body,
and are also due to the evil forces which consciously allow the evil
of disease to spread in the body. Some diseases are brought about by
physical transgressions against the laws of health, but disease germs
are also created by an evil force that tries to destroy the beautiful
creation of God–the human body. When the actions of an individual
become very bad, evil vibrations are generated, attracting disease
germs, which are the agencies of evil.

Jesus could see the evil force that was responsible for the
introduction of fever into the body of Simon's wife's mother, and
thus he rebuked it away and restored the harmony of health. Jesus
commanded the predominating evil force to depart from the body of the
stricken woman, thus reinstating the conscious Astral forces which
govern normal health.

"And at even, when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick
with diverse diseases brought them unto Him; and they that were
possessed with devils; and He laid His hands on every one of them,
and healed them. And all the city was gathered together at the door."
[Mark 1:32-33]

Jesus exercised his supreme healing power to heal everyone who came
to Him. He could heal all those who came unto Him at that time
because all of them had the power of receptivity and faith. Faith is
the soil, and the power of God flowing through the healer is the
seed. True healing requires the true soil of faith in the patient and
the powerful seed of healing in the healer or God.

Jesus could not heal everybody in the place where He was born
because, even powerful as He was, He could not sprout the seed of his
healing power on the rocky soil of disbelieving minds.

In healing, the power of the healer, great or small, is limited as
compared to the unlimited healing power of God. Hence, all healers,
instead of commanding their own powers in healing should invoke the
unlimited Divine power of healing to flow through them and work
certain healing. Man's power may fail but God's power can never fail.
Even though God has unlimited healing power and though our Father
does not want to see us suffer from disease, yet He cannot heal us
until we open the gates of our own willingness to be healed. God has
given us free choice, unlike the animals, and by misusing it we can
keep God out of our lives. By using it properly, we can allow God to
heal us.

In order to be sure of God's healing power, one must know and feel
Him deeply in meditation daily. When sure of the Divine Communion,
one should completely absorb oneself in God preceding every healing
which one tries to perform. When administering Divine healing, the
healer must act as a perfect medium in order to let God's unlimited
power flow through without obstruction. Egotism and loud declaration,
and self-laudation, such as, "I healed her," and so forth, should be
strictly avoided both in speech and mind, in order to let the all-
knowing God perform the healing.