Healin the sick

[Jenny]

Does anyone know about Ja-ray...I don't have a clue about the spelling. I seem to remember when I was little I was real sick so my mother took me to this old man in the village and he take 2 coconut broom stick and pass it over my head and mumbled some prayers....does anyone have a clue what I am talking about.

Its just that I am trying to remember what he did and get some more information on it, cause I seem to remember getting well after.....

[Falcon]

If coconut broom stick is jharay; then what is peacock feather? Fancy Jharay?




(I dont mean to be offensive with that)

[Jenny]

Hmmm...dunno....
Do you know what Im talkin about???

[Ali]

Jaray i think is a term used in trinidad only .......

basically means praying i guess :|

[Mivo]

Does anyone know about Ja-ray...I don't have a clue about the spelling. I seem to remember when I was little I was real sick so my mother took me to this old man in the village and he take 2 coconut broom stick and pass it over my head and mumbled some prayers....does anyone have a clue what I am talking about.

Its just that I am trying to remember what he did and get some more information on it, cause I seem to remember getting well after.....

Jenny I know what you are asking, a mantra(prayers) was said while the broom was passed over you thats why you got well after. People today do not believe in getting jharay anymore, but I do. Some pundits an sadhus still jharay

[Jenny]

I guess I believe in it....I was quite ill when I was younger.....Its the power of prayer I guess. I just cant seem to remember what the man was saying....or even what language it was in...

[sapodila]

I am pretty sure I know what you talking about. ............and one of the broom sticks of the same size , did grew a bit .....yes? (FALCON IS TRUE!) I saw it for myself too..... when the Sadhu Jharay me and my sis. He then break out the longer piece and give it to my Mom to burn in the fire. He was chanting different mantras in sanscrit... Jenny!

[brag]

I used to believe the broom sticks grew, when my mother used to show us how they grew before she burnt them in the fire. Then one day I saw how she measured them before and after. But I believe the whole idea of healing by magic has to do with receptivity and changes in brain waves that causes ritualistic healing. Many folk remedies work but we cannot always explain the process of healing.

[Solachica]

I remember my grandmudder neighbour, an old muslim man and they took us there to jaray. He would use the broom sticks and say his prayers and blow on us every now and then while passing the broom over us. I think he broke the broom stick too.

My relatives also does their own ouchay(sp) with onion, salt and garlic(I think) in a paper and pass it over the ill person and then go burn it. If it smell nasty they wud say you had plenty maljoe.

Then there was the ole woman who rub people back and use the candle and the glass.

Then becos I born wrong side they tell me I cud do thing using my feet and rub it 3 times down back and kick and tht wud heal back pains. Some people actually came to me when I was small to do tht and said it worked.

Then it have where they hold fingers a certain way and say a prayers and tht supposed to help with something. My dad can do tht. Hold finger open and close certain way.

Wonder if I remember more. :lol:

[Sumana]

Wait u born breach too!!! me 2!!!!!!! hehehe I heard about that rub thing too with people born wrong side...

[Jenny]

yes yes...that is what I remembered....they use to blow on me and measure the broom stick...my memory was a bit fuzzy but now its comin back to me....Its sooo good to get this information....I want to know more about this Jharay and see if it really does work....
I cant remember the religion of the man who did the jharay...im catholic but Im thinking the man was muslim...not too sure though...

[sapodila]

I've had the Imam, the Pundit, the swami and the Catholic Priest all "jharay" me......... the blessings of God is universal eh!

[brag]

Remember what Jesus said.."thy faith hath made thee whole." But how does a child have faith in God and is healed? My guess is that the child is still influenced by the mother's thought processes, and her faith in God is conveyed to the child. Many doctors will tell you that they give their patients a water pill or placebo as a healing remedy, and their faith in the doctor healed them. What are some thoughts about my guess?

[gaia]

Jaray is the name used by local Hindus, perhaps even in India for removing old stagnant energy from the aura, thus cleansing and healing the body. It is not magical but part of the metaphysical/spiritual awareness of how illnesses, diseases start. Broomstick, a feather, peacock or otherwise, a twig, the hand or whatever can be used. Its the intention that counts. The patient can even feel the removal of heavy energy, remember we are energy: Many schools of healing, including reiki use this method.

[snowbird]

Don't know much about the effects of Jaray, but I remember seeing first hand the effects of a baby being 'Santi-wah' (spelling?).

My old 'coco-payol' Great Grand Father was know for performing this right on babies who were brought to him suffering from 'Mal Yeux'.... the evil eye ( personally think it was colic);
anyway, he would bless them using certain prayers while waiving a certain herbs and grasses over them; from the return visits of grateful parents it would appear his 'ritual' worked every time.

[Aloha]

Jaray is a ritual done by Hindu priest, on babies and small children, to ward off evil eye
usually they are irritable and don't eat, so it is said that for this! a pundit has to smoke
the infant or adult and say the prayers for that. I don't know if that's done anywhere else
but Trinidad. In the USA and Europe I doubt there is such a practice. It's origin is in
the Caribbean.

[Solachica]

For people with Jundice there is also the jaray with the doob grass and mustard oil.
The doob grass is passed thru the mustard oil and prayers etc are said while the person is touching tht taria(sp) with their feet(I think) and the mustard oil becomes thick.

I experienced this.
Drs tell lots of people they have jundice and when they go jaray and go back to drs after the drs say its all gone.

[snowbird]

Sounds like this Jaray ritual is much the same as the 'Santi-Wah' as the end result was the same.
I guess each ethnic group had their own version of it...... hummm; but then as as stated, it is not a North American thing, never heard of it up here; Unless perhaps it is done by the 'Native People' (the First Nations or the Innuet) as I know they are involved in quite a bit of 'Healing' rituals.

[wandelaar]

We have here Healing though the laying of hands, magnetism, Reiki. They are all the same thing. I do healing, I don't really understand it but it seems to work sometimes :?:

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