Disease, Karma, and the Mechanics of Health
A perspective beyond medicine
Today, there is a growing conversation around disease—about genes, chemicals, hormones, and imbalances. While all this is valid at a certain level, it is still a fragmented understanding of the human system. Medicine is looking at the effects; it rarely touches the cause.
In yogic sciences, we speak of prārabdha karma—that portion of past action whose consequences are already in motion in this lifetime. Your body, your psychological tendencies, certain vulnerabilities, even some illnesses, are influenced by this momentum.
This does not mean disease is destiny.
It only means there is memory in the system.
Karma is not punishment. Karma is memory.
Karma is often misunderstood as reward and punishment. That is a childish interpretation. Karma is simply residual information—stored in the body, in the nervous system, in the cellular intelligence, and in the energy framework.
What modern science calls genetics and epigenetics, yogic science has always known as karmic imprinting.
What medicine calls chronic stress, yogic science calls unresolved memory playing itself out.
Biochemistry is not separate from this.
It is karma translated into chemistry.
Are biochemical imbalances karmic?
Not every biochemical fluctuation is karmic in origin. Accidents happen. Infections occur. But when an imbalance becomes persistent, repetitive, or chronic, it is no longer just chemical—it is karmic.
Two people are exposed to the same environment, the same pathogen, the same stressor. One recovers easily. Another deteriorates. This difference is not chance; it is internal organization.
Karma decides the tendency.
Biochemistry decides the expression.
Consciousness decides the outcome.
Can prārabdha karma be destroyed?
Prārabdha is like an arrow already released. You cannot stop it midway by panic, belief, or effort. Trying to “fight” karma only strengthens identification with it.
But there is another dimension.
You do not destroy prārabdha by attacking it.
You dissolve its power by outgrowing the one to whom it belongs.
Karma has jurisdiction only as long as you are confined to:
the body
the mind
the personality
the limited sense of “I am this”
When consciousness expands beyond this identification, karma loses its grip. The arrow may still land, but it no longer wounds.
What does transcendence actually change?
Transcendence is not mystical fantasy. It is a higher level of internal governance.
When a person genuinely transcends prārabdha at a lived level:
stress hormones no longer dominate physiology
inflammatory cascades lose chronic activation
neural patterns reorganize
endocrine rhythms stabilize
gene expression shifts
recovery and repair mechanisms revive
Nothing supernatural is happening.
The system is simply no longer functioning in survival mode.
This is why deep meditative states produce measurable biochemical changes. This is why placebo and nocebo effects can rival drugs. This is why spontaneous remissions, though rare, are real.
Consciousness is not anti-biochemical.
It is upstream of biochemistry.
Can disease be cured through transcendence?
This must be stated with precision.
Enlightenment does not promise immunity.
Sādhanā is not a bargain with life.
But when karmic friction reduces:
sometimes disease dissolves
sometimes it restructures into a manageable form
sometimes it completes its course without suffering
The most important thing is this:
Suffering disappears long before disease does.
Health is not something you manufacture.
Health is what naturally happens when the system is no longer in conflict with itself.
The danger of misunderstanding
If someone says, “This disease is my karma, nothing can be done,”
that is spiritual laziness.
If someone says, “I will destroy my karma and conquer disease,”
that is ego masquerading as spirituality.
The truthful statement is much simpler:
“Let me become larger than my karma.”
When that happens, medicine finds its rightful place—not as a savior, but as a support. And spirituality is no longer an escape—it becomes the science of inner organization.
The future of health
The future is not anti-medicine.
The future is beyond medicine.
Medicine will manage expression.
Human sciences will transform the cause.
When consciousness rises, chemistry reorganizes.
When inner order is established, health is not pursued—it happens.
This is not belief.
This is not philosophy.
This is simply how the human system works, when understood as a whole.

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