Mandala
May 2024
Mandala
Reaching Out with Kriya Yoga
Sanghamitra Chatterjee from Thane was initially inspired by her maternal grandmother and Swami Vivekananda to tread the path of spirituality. Eventually, she took to the path of Kriya Yoga, following the guidance of Shri Gyan Maharaj. Sanghamitra holds three postgraduate degrees, including one from IIM, and has worked with reputed banks in India.
Then, during one phase, her husband kept meeting with accidents, one after the other, and Sanghamitra just did not know what to do. Astrologers told her that he may die in this period, but she stuck to her faith in the Divine.
She restarted her Kriya Yoga practice and kept praying with faith for strength to get through this period. She did extensive Kriya Yoga for his benefit as he travelled regularly. Although he met with a lot of accidents, he always recovered. At one point, he thought it would be better to travel by local train instead of driving. But, as fate would have it, he fell onto the tracks. Miraculously, someone pulled him up before the train arrived and ran over him. This period of accidents for her husband went on for seven years, but the incidents during this period only served to reinforce her faith. After this experience, she never looked back.
Using Kriya Yoga, Sanghamitra initially worked to help autistic, dyslexic, and slow learners as she felt that such children were suffering heavily due to non-acceptance from their parents. She held counselling sessions for them and one-on-one healings. It gave her huge satisfaction to see the children improving and the parents happy.
Sanghamitra is also pleased to have played a role in healing her domestic help’s husband, who was a drunkard and disturbed the entire family. She began healing him to be free of his alcoholism, and in six months, he became free of his addiction, much to the family’s delight.
Sanghamitra’s mission is to reach out and empower humanity with love, light, and protection, and to create a community built around true compassion. She has formed a venture, Marigolds by Sanghamitra, to help more healers use their skills and begin earning. Participants from all over the globe have responded to her efforts.
Sanghamitra’s passion for healing through Kriya Yoga will continue to inspire others like her to contribute positively to society.
- By Jamuna Rangachari
Zealous healer provides an alternative to allopathy
Satyendra Singh from Mumbai has had a remarkable journey. At one point, he had had 10 years of experience in pharmaceutical sales and training. When he was working in this industry, he found that most people were not in need of medication but emotional healing, yet all of them were prescribed lots of medicines. Due to their side effects, the allopathic medicines worsened many cases. Satyendra came across some programmes, teaching healing without medicines and started attending many such workshops. He found that the healing of most diseases and disorders can be done without medicine, and whatever he learnt, he practised on people.
Now Satyendra has 26 years of experience in subconscious mind and NLP training, psychological counselling, and energy healing.
He has been practising hypnotherapy, cell regeneration, soul healing, and past life regression therapy since 1998. Once, a lady in Vashi, Navi Mumbai, Mrs Tina Vig, around 40 years of age, came to Satyendra with a 10-year-old shoulder and wrist pain.
Within 45 minutes, he healed her, and she was completely free of pain. It’s more than 10 years now, and it has never relapsed. A lady, Shilpa M., was having very bad relationships with her husband and her motherin-law. Just after a single session of past life regression and healing with Satyendra, her relationships turned into very cordial ones after the cord connecting past life negative experiences to this life was severed.
A 30-year-old lady, Miss S Ingolkar, was heartbroken and used to cry most of the time after her breakup. She started living a normal life after a single session of Satyendra’s healing through hypnotherapy.
There are numerous stories of miraculous healing through Satyendra’s sessions, especially through hypnotherapy and past life regression therapy. Patients with problems such as migraine, arthritis, dysmenorrhea, menorrhagia, premenstrual syndrome, thyroid disorders, addiction, allergy, anxiety, depression, asthma, irritable bowel syndrome, colitis, constipation, cystitis, fibroids, insomnia, jaundice, gall bladder and kidney stones, ulcer, psoriasis, and gastritis visit him and are healed in just three to four sessions.
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Who says healing is no laughing matter?
In January 2016, Sheetal Agarwal from Delhi heard about medical clowning for the first time. “I was wowed by the concept and wanted to experience the joy of sharing smiles,” she says. There was no one doing this in Delhi. Time passed by, but the thought of clowning stayed with her.
It was on July 9, 2016, that Sheetal clowned for the first time, at a children’s hospital, Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya (Delhi). Children stopped crying and started smiling when the clowns played with them. Parents shed tears of happiness seeing their children smile. Doctors and nurses were pleasantly amused. And through all this, Sheetal was spellbound. She realised that day that medical clowning not only heals the patients but also the ones practising it.
Not wanting to give up this newly discovered Sheetal: Laughter is th best medicinepassion, Sheetal quit her teaching job in 2018 to take up clowning full-time and founded Clownselors in July 2018. Finding volunteers for each clowning session and making Clownselors sustainable has been the biggest challenge, as this work is not looked upon as ‘work’ but ‘charity.’
Nevertheless, many moments in Clownselors’ journey speak volumes for the impact it creates. These inspire Sheetal to keep going and not give up on what she started with all her heart. For instance, recently, during one of the clowning sessions at Dharamshila Narayana Superspeciality Hospital, a man battling cancer was in a lot of pain. She started doing laughter exercises with him, in which he participated zealously along with his family members, and he started feeling better, leaving her ecstatic! Another such moment which is etched in her heart was when she was clowning for a patient at Apollo Hospital on World Cancer Day. The patient’s brother couldn’t hold back his tears when he saw his cancer-ridden sister laugh and respond to something after many months. He was so touched that he approached her and discretely handed her a 500-rupee note. When she refused to accept it, he said with teary eyes, ‘This is a brother’s blessing for making his sister smile.’ Something he had given up all hope on. That 500-rupee note meant all the world to her.
Sheetal hopes that doses of laughter will be given the same importance as doses of medicine. After all, as they say, isn’t laughter the best medicine?
- By Jamuna Rangachari