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''Q: What to do about illness?''
A: Be passively confident: let me do it and it is done.’<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the-divine-grace#p8</ref>
<center>~</center> When the disease came back, I said to myself, 'Very well, this means it must be dealt with in a new way.' <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/march-7-1961#p10</ref> <center>~</center> It [the descent of the higher consciousness into the most physical]...becomes more possible to control the functionings of the body and set right anything that is wrong, to deal with illness and pain etc. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/descent-and-the-lower-nature#p26</ref> <center>~</center>
...Once the illness has got in, it [the body] can fight and overcome it...But this implies only a defensive power, the power to react against an invading enemy—it is not true freedom. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/october-17-1957#p3</ref>
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...But sick people... when I tell them, "Be sincere," I know what I mean: if they REALLY want the Divine, all that must stop. That's all... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/may-8-1965#p41</ref>
<center>~</center> ...the method is to change the subconscient into the conscient—if each thing that rises to the surface becomes conscious, at that moment it must be changed. There is a more direct method still: it is to enter the subconscient in one's full consciousness and work there... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/11-may-1955#p7</ref> <center>~</center> ...when there is an illness ...automatically the cells forget ...their sadhana and everything, and it is only slowly when you get out of the illness that the cells begin to remember...my ambition was that the cells should remember when being ill...The first time that the cells remembered, oh, I was very happy. But now,...as soon as the disorder comes, the cells first...got a little anxious: "Oh, we are so bad that we are still catching illnesses"—that was a period; and then, afterwards there was the impression: "Oh, You want to teach us a lesson, we have something to learn"—that was already much better: a kind of eagerness. And now there is an intense joy and a kind of power; a power that comes, a power of aspiration and a power of realization that comes with the sense: "We are winning a victory, we are winning a new victory...."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/july-7-1965#p1</ref> <center>~</center> ...the last stage is that the body should forget it has been ill; that's very important.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/october-10-1964#p27</ref>
...You must put a strong will for getting rid of your illness and you must remain quiet and unperturbed by the results. The two are not contradictory. One should accompany the other… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/will-to-conquer-illness#p6</ref>
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...a positive silence, which is at the same time a complete immobility—that's very good as an antidote to disorder...
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/august-7-1963#p27</ref>
<center>~</center> ...the most difficult from the yogic point of view is toothache, because it is very close to the brain….Usually in a tooth it is the nerve which has been attacked by the caries, the disease, and which begins to protest with all its strength. So, if you succeed in establishing...immobility, you prevent it from vibrating, you prevent it from protesting… if you do it fairly constantly, with sufficient perseverance, the sick nerve will die and you will not suffer at all any more. Because it was that which was suffering and when it is dead it does not suffer any longer. Try...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p23</ref> <center>~</center>
...it is possible even to turn the pains of illness like any other pain into a form of pleasure; for pain and pleasure are both of them degradations of an original Ananda and can be reduced into the terms of each other or else sublimated into their original principle of Ananda… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p58</ref>
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Suppose that as a result of some illness or other, there is some sort of pain at a precise spot...First point: do not stress the pain...Second point... draw the peace into yourself and bring it down into the solar plexus...and from there direct it very calmly...persistently, towards the place where the pain is..., and fix it there...This is not always enough...But if by widening this movement you can add a sort of mental formation...that the only reality is the divine Reality...bring into the cells of the body the consciousness of this sole Reality,...and trusting surrender to the Grace, then I am sure...your suffering will disappear… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/4-july-1956#p21</ref>
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These [There] are phenomena of self-identification. Only, they are involuntary... When someone cannot sleep ...his nerves are ill and weakened by excessive agitation, he is told to sit in front of an aquarium... and look at the fish. So he looks at the fish, moving around, coming and going, ...After a while he lives the life of fishes: he comes and goes, swims, glides, plays. And at the end of the hour his nerves are in a perfect state and he is completely restful! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/12-august-1953#p18</ref>
Most of them [illnesses] can be got rid of almost at once by faith and calling in the force. Those that are chronic are more difficult, but they too can be got rid of by the same means if persistently used. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p44</ref>
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...with the call, the concentration and the response ... [the disorder is dissolved]. It's almost a surrender,... the damaged spot opens to the Influence,...(gesture like a flower opening out),...unconditionally—that is the most potent gesture.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/december-20-1967#p25</ref>
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''Q:When I am sympathetic with a sick person my body begins to feel the symptoms of his disease...''
A:The best way is to call for the Divine Presence of Truth and Harmony, to replace the vibrations of disorder and confusion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/general#p28</ref>
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...if you have a pain somewhere... it corresponds to something within,... the contact with the true Force puts things back in order... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-28-1970#p23</ref>
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The pains in the body come from the same source as the trouble in the vital nature; ... Remain always quiet and persist in opening yourself. The Force that releases you from the vital trouble, can also remove the disturbance in the nervous part and the physical body… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p93</ref>
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The only thing I can suggest about diseases is to call down peace. Keep the mind away from the body by whatever means... It is in this state that the Grace acts. And it is the Grace alone that cures... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/peace-and-quiet-faith-and-surrender#p10</ref>
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...one used the[uses the mind]... to make favourable formations—... to give confidence to the body, to tell it that it is just a passing disturbance ...and if it enters a real state of receptivity, the disorder will disappear as easily as it has come, and one can cure oneself in a few seconds—if one knows how to do that, one gets wonderful results. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/23-december-1953#p36</ref>
Not be afraid of falling ill! That's what. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/october-22-1966#p4</ref>
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A strict discipline is needed to cure the body of fear. The cells themselves tremble. It is only by discipline, by yoga that one can overcome this fear... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p10</ref>
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...as soon as one begins to feel afraid of something [one] is to think of the Divine and then snuggle in his arms or at his feet and leave him entirely responsible for everything that happens, within, outside, everywhere—and immediately the fear disappears... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/14-october-1953#p36</ref>
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...the body can bear much more than we think, if no fear or anxiety is added to the pain. If we eliminate the mental factor, the body, left to itself, has neither fear nor apprehension nor anxiety about what is going to happen—no anguish—and it can bear a great deal.
[Based on Aphorism<93> Pain is the touch of our Mother teaching us how to hear and grow in rapture. She has tree stages of her schooling, endurance first, next equality of soul, last ecstasy.]
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-93#p3</ref>
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Mental fear—all who have a little control over themselves or any human dignity can eliminate it; vital fear is more subtle and asks for a greater control; as for physical fear, a veritable yoga is necessary to overcome it, for the cells of the body are afraid of everything that is unpleasant, painful,...the cells of the body[they] become anxious, they don't like to be uncomfortable. And then, to overcome that, the control of a conscious will is necessary...It is this kind of trembling of material, physical fear in the cells of the body which aggravates all illnesses.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p6</ref>
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But you mustn't be afraid. Neither afraid of falling ill, nor of becoming imbecile, nor even... of dying—you must be like this (vast and quiet gesture, like the sea).
The physical mind...makes use of the nervous substance; if we withdraw it from the nervous substance, we no longer feel anything, for that's what gives us the perception of sensation....We know something is wrong, but we no longer suffer from it...this kind of indifferent detachment is the ESSENTIAL condition for the establishment of true Harmony in the most material Matter—the most external, physical Matter
This is the logical consequence... on the cause of illnesses and how to overcome them.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/january-31-1961#p14</ref> <center>~</center>
...detachment of the mind must be strengthened by a certain attitude of indifference to the things of the body; we must not care essentially about its ...health or ill-health,...This does not mean that we shall not keep the body in right order so far as we can; we have not to fall into violent asceticisms or a positive neglect of the physical frame. But we have not either to be affected in mind by...discomfort or ill-health or attach the importance which the physical and vital man attaches to the things of the body... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p2</ref>
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One step towards it[illness] is to get the inner consciousness separate from the body—to feel that it is not you who are ill but it is only something taking place in the body and not affecting your consciousness. It is then possible to see this separate body consciousness, what it feels, what are its reactions to things, how it works. One can then act on it to change its consciousness and reactions. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p54</ref>
<center>~</center> Only, when one is not very much coddled, when one has a little endurance and decides within himself not to pay too much attention, quite remarkably the pain diminishes… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p21</ref> <center>~</center>
...the knowledge of the power to cut the connection between the suffering part and the recording brain. ...all this calls for an occult power or a training...without going so far, there is one thing that one can try to do: it is not to concentrate on one's pain,...But[and] if one can turn one's attention away, one no longer suffers. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/27-april-1955#p16</ref>
==Re-establishing Harmony==
So there are two things you have to do when you have discovered the disorder, big or small—the disharmony. ...the first thing to do is to quieten oneself, bring peace, calm, ... Afterwards you see what is the cause of the disorder...and through the pressure of light and knowledge and spiritual force you re-establish the harmony...if it does not offer any obstinate resistance, you can be cured in a few seconds.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p58</ref> <center>~</center>
One must be conscious, conscious of the working of one's organs,...When they begin indulging in unhealthy fancies...you must tell them: no, it is not like that the work is to be done, it is the other way! Suppose for example, your heart begins to throb madly; then you must make it calm, you tell it that this is not the way to behave, and at the same time (solely to help it) you take in long, very regular rhythmic breaths, that is, the lung becomes the mentor of the heart and teaches it how to work properly... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p36</ref>
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The particular place in the body affected by an illness is an index to the nature of the inner disharmony that has taken place. It points to the origin,... It indicates the treatment and the cure. If one could... find out what has been unreceptive, open that part and put the force and the light there, it would be possible to re-establish in a moment the harmony that has been disturbed and the illness would immediately go. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p8</ref>
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...the intervention of the Vibration of Harmony into the vibration of Disorder, allowing [allows] Disorder to cease.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/march-25-1964#p34</ref>
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...we think the body is in good health, that it's balanced, and that "something is introduced from outside, which causes you to fall ill," but it's not like that! We are ALWAYS off balance, the body is always off balance... and it is something else, above, a Will or a Consciousness, that holds it up and makes it work. So if we can call on...that Will for Harmony—and if we can have ...that [the] Flame of aspiration, and make contact, we emerge from so-called illness…
==Restoring Order==
...if order is restored at the center of disorder, everything follows naturally, without your paying it any special attention.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/september-26-1964#p63</ref>
That [The] intrusion of Disorder makes itself felt everywhere, it has repercussions everywhere...if you are able to bring to the attacked spot the true Vibration—the Vibration of Order and Harmony—and you stop the Disorder... all the other things are put back in order, as if automatically. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/september-26-1964#p57</ref> <center>~</center> If you organise everything—your feelings, your thoughts, your impulses, etc,—around the psychic centre which is the inner light, you will see that all inner disorder will change into a luminous order.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/15-january-1951#p5</ref> <center>~</center>
...the body itself awakening in its cells, a freedom of the cells themselves, an absolutely new vibration that sets disorders right—even disorders that existed prior to the supramental manifestation.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/october-17-1957#p7</ref> <center>~</center>
...the habit of disease can be...minimised and gradually eliminated and in the meantime the power of the mind to set right the disorders of the body whether by conscious manipulation of vital force or by simple mental fiat will immensely increase... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p5</ref>
=What Are the Obstacles to Cure?=