Hands That Heal

Mohan Joshi explains to Rishi Rathod how surrender is the first step in healing through touch

- Mohan Joshi

For a week, every evening during tea breaks or after office hours, two SBI bank employees—a boss and a subordinate—would mysteriously disappear. It transpired that they would quietly enter a small bank record room where vouchers and registers were filed. Together, they were experimenting on something that was only known to them. On their fourth day, much to their own happy surprise, the miracle they were attempting to bring about happened: Narendra Kumar Navghare (the boss), who was diagnosed with ganglion (a tendon sheath disorder), was healed through touch by Mohan Joshi (the subordinate).

It was this healing that marked the birth of renowned healer Mohan Joshi’s remarkable journey.

Mohanji was working with the State Bank of India in Akola, Maharashtra, and had gained a small but enthusiastic following as an astrologer. To build on this foundation, he moved to Mumbai. He did not know at the time that Mumbai would forever put to rest his dream of becoming a renowned astrologer, but would, instead, turn him into a renowned healer.

How it began

A few weeks before this experiment with his boss, Mohanji, an aspiring astrologer, was referred to a doctor from Bombay Hospital, for whom he was drawing a horoscope. They hit it off well and soon became good friends. The doctor, who also practised alternative healing as a supplementary modality, declared with conviction that Mohanji was himself a born healer. Cautiously sceptic, he asked the doctor politely how he should proceed to become the healer that he already was from within. The doctor friend told him that he could heal just by using his hands. In the 1980s, when reiki or pranic healing had yet not commenced in India and no one had heard about healing by touch, he couldn’t conceive that by merely touching, he could heal someone.