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<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the-divine-grace#p3</ref>
<center>~</center> Peace and stillness are the great remedy for disease.When we can bring peace in our cells, we are cured.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/peace-and-quiet-faith-and-surrender#p26</ref> <center>~</center>
‘‘Q:When one is caught in an illness, how should one pray to the Mother?’’
A:Cure me, O Mother!<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the-divine-grace#p10</ref> <center>~</center>
I don't want you to be ill and always I am with you to cure you—but you too must want to be cured. Do not torment yourself and always nestle in my arms so as to receive my love and force.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/23-september-1934#p2</ref>
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Ultimately to put it quite tritely, one can cure only if the disease isn't necessary to the individual's development.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/december-13-1969#p14</ref>
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If this present difficulty is useful ... (it's the body addressing the Lord)..for Your Work—so be it..It [The body] doesn't ask to be cured of the illness! It doesn't ask, it is ready; 'All right,' it says. 'As long as I can keep going, I will keep going. As long as I can last, I will last. But that's not what I'm asking for: I am asking to be cured of my stupidity.' I believe this is what...gives it the necessary endurance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/february-7-1961#p24</ref>
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...in order to be able to cure an illness, one must find out its cause, not its microbe.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p42</ref>
...There are two ways of curing an illness spiritually. One...the person is receptive; the force of consciousness is put upon the affected part and its pressure restores order. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p11</ref> <center>~</center>
In other cases, if the body lacks receptivity... one sees the inner correspondence with the psychological state which has brought about the illness and acts on that. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p12</ref>
<center>~</center> When you are completely cured, it will be an indication of some inner progress.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/will-to-conquer-illness#p6</ref> <center>~</center>
But when you have had ...an illness...the body remembers for a very long time. If you want to be completely cured, you must cure this memory in the body, this is absolutely indispensable...When the remembrance is effaced, the body is truly healed.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/13-october-1954#p47</ref>
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...all you have to do is this (''gesture of stepping back''), and there it is.
And it is the root cure of disorder. It is anti-disorder.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/03/october-30-1962#p62</ref> <center>~</center> ...the cure for all physical disorders lies in the cells becoming convinced—conscious and convinced—that they are an expression of the Divine, or even that they are divine in their essence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/12/october-16-1971#p6</ref>
...most disorders of the body are connected,...If one can strike at their psycho-physical root, one can cure even without knowing the pathological whole of the matter and working through the symptoms is a possibility...
==Surrender==
If a surrender is to be made, it's to Him. ..."May Your Will be done," ...And one sees that there was absolutely no imperative need to be ill or for the disequilibrium to occur.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/june-15-1968#p17</ref> <center>~</center> ...that[The] disorganization is what prevents the cohesion necessary for the cells to constitute an individual body, so then you know, "Ah (gesture of dissolution), it'll be the end." Then the cells aspire, there is a sort of central consciousness of the body which aspires intensely, with as complete a surrender as it can make: "Your Will, Lord, Your Will, Your Will...." Then... first there is a peace, then a light, then Harmony—and the disorder has vanished. And once the disorder has vanished, there is instantly IN THE CELLS a sense of living eternity, of living for eternity.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/november-15-1967#p32</ref> <center>~</center> ...all ...disorders of the body...suddenly (naturally, the constant state is one of... an intense, continuous, conscious aspiration) ...disappears, not only inside but around ...without the least effort, and it starts...moving within an extraordinary progressive harmony; then, with no apparent reason, without anything having changed in the consciousness and any outer circumstances making a difference, pfft! it reverts to what it was before: disorder, conflict, chaos, things that grate. And then, as you aren't conscious of the why, you don't have the key!...the only recourse is a blissful surrender.. and not a heavy, not an inert surrender: intense, intense! ...That's the only thing. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/march-20-1965#p34</ref>
...all ...disorders of if something in the body...suddenly 's working gets disturbed (naturallya pain or disorder, the constant state is one onset of... an intense, continuous, conscious aspirationsome illness) ...disappearsand I repeat my mantra in a certain way—still the same words, not only inside but around ...without the least effortsame mantra, but said with a certain purpose and it starts...moving within an extraordinary progressive harmony; then, with no apparent reason, without anything having changed above all in the consciousness and any outer circumstances making a differencemovement of surrender, pfft! it reverts to what it was before: disorder, conflict, chaos, things that grate. And then, as you aren't conscious surrender of the whypain, you don't have the key!...the only recourse is a blissful surrender.. disorder, and not a heavycall, not like an inert surrender: intense, intense! opening—it has a marvelous effect. ...That's the only thingAnd after a while everything is put back in order.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0601/marchjune-204-19651960#p34p4</ref>
...working according to somebody else's ideas makes or keeps you ill, I do not see why it should be so...If ...doing things in what you consider not the best way, makes you nervous...ill, that is a pity. It would be so much better if you could leave the responsibility of the way of doing things to the Mother and do cheerfully what you have to do. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p83</ref>
<center>~</center> ...congenital diseases can be cured only by an integral transformation of the body itself and we have not reached yet that period in the sadhana; otherwise it is only a so-called "miraculous cure" that can take place and that kind of "miracle" can happen only as the result of an absolute sincerity in the consecration to the Divine and an unshakable faith in the Divine Grace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the-divine-grace#p13</ref>
==Changing the Attitude==
These[the] maladies are a creation of the pressure of hostile forces;...The only way is to remain quiet, dissociate yourself and refuse to accept it or make much of it, allow the calm and strength that the Mother has been putting around you to enter your mind and permeate your nervous system...The cure may take time because your nervous system has been long subjected to these influences and, when they are evicted, they return with violence to re-establish their hold. But if you can acquire and keep patience and fortitude and the right consciousness and right attitude with regard to these things, the hold they have will progressively disappear.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/accidents-possession-madness#p15</ref> <center>~</center>
The attitude in the cells changes—not the disorder (!), the disorder changes only because of the cells' reaction, that's what makes it change; but it recurs with clockwork regularity—that's its job. It is the way it's received by the cells, their reaction to it, that brings about the change.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/march-30-1963#p19</ref>
<center>~</center> ...all the digestive functions are extremely sensitive to an attitude that is critical, bitter, full of ill-will, to a sour judgment...it is a vicious circle: the more the digestive function is disturbed, the more unkind ...critical, dissatisfied with life...And there is only one cure: to deliberately drop this attitude,...and to impose upon yourself,...a deliberate attitude of all-comprehending kindness.<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-bhikkhu#p25</ref> <center>~</center>
...there are many people now who...treat their illnesses by making conscious mental suggestions to the body which counteract the obscure secret suggestions of illness in the subconscient.
To heal [illness] by the true force is obviously the best—provided the body is amenable. It has a consciousness of its own which must be fully enlightened before it gives a full response. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p1</ref>
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...the Force of spiritual purification which is such an absolutely perfectly constructive force that nothing that's in the least destructive can survive there. ..you direct it on the spot and the adverse force usually runs away immediately...And with that not only is the illness cured, but all possibility of its return is also eliminated. You are cured of the illness once for all, it never comes back. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p60</ref>
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When something happens—an accident or an illness,...they ask for help, a double or a triple dose of energy is sent. If they happen to be receptive, they receive it. This energy is given for two reasons: to restore order out of the disorder caused by the accident or illness, and to impart a transformative force to repair or change the source of the illness or accident.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/july-21-1958#p1</ref>
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...if it[illness] has succeeded in getting through the protection and entering you,...go out of your body, remain above in a way to be able to see the body... and from there, consciously, you pull the Force from above, ...you begin to push these forces into the body...until you see that the body is receiving, that the Force is entering, the disorder is being set right and there is a relaxation in the body itself. Once that is done you can get back and you are cured. …[if]you don't know how to go out of the body,... there is a much easier method, it is to call for help. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p23</ref>
<center>~</center> I used to do it simply like this: breathe in very slowly to the count of 4, then hold for 4 like this...lifting the diaphragm and lowering the head...closing everything and exerting pressure... Then while I held the air, I would make it circulate with the force ...and with the peace as well; and I would concentrate it wherever there was a physical disorder (a pain or something wrong somewhere). It's very effective. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/03/february-24-1962#p36</ref> <center>~</center>
...it[sciatica] cannot resist the Force quietly and persistently applied. Other illnesses can resist, but sciatica being entirely tamasic cannot. The application of Force does not yet, probably, come natural to you, so it brings a sense of struggle not of quiet domination, hence the restlessness etc. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p18</ref>
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Of course it [cancer] can [be cured by Yoga], but on condition of faith or openness or both. Even a mental suggestion can cure cancer <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p2</ref>
==Medicine==
Medicines are a ''pis aller'' [a course of action followed as a last resort]that have to be used when something in the consciousness does not respond or responds superficially to the Force.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p6</ref> <center>~</center>
...if for some reason the body is not able to respond to the Force...then the aid of medical treatment becomes necessary. It is not that the Force ceases to act and leaves all to the medicines,—it will continue to act through the consciousness but take the support of the treatment so as to act directly on the resistance in the body, which responds more readily to physical means in its ordinary consciousness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p15</ref>
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Medicine is necessary for our bodies in disease only because our bodies have learned the art of not getting well without medicines.
Medicine is necessary for our bodies in disease only because our bodies have learned the art of not getting well without medicines. Even so, one sees often that the moment Nature chooses for recovery is that in which the life is abandoned as hopeless by the doctors.]
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-404-405-406-407#p1</ref>
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Drugs often cure the body when they do not merely trouble or poison it, but only if their physical attack on the disease is supported by the force of the spirit; if that force can be made to work freely, drugs are superfluous.
The supramental descent is necessary for a dynamic action of the Truth in mind, vital and body. This would imply as a final result the disappearance of the unconsciousness of the body; it would no longer be subject to decay and disease.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/transformation-and-the-body#p15</ref>
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The absolute immunity can only come with the supramental change. …in a supramentalised body immunity from illness would be automatic, inherent in its new nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p52</ref>
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The complete immunity from all illness for which our Yoga tries can only come by a total and permanent enlightenment of the below from above resulting in the removal of the psychological roots of ill health—it cannot be done otherwise.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p38</ref>
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...take a supramental being having the supramental consciousness, if his body gets cancer, it will remain cancer... He may not feel anything, but only if he detaches himself from his body; whereas, for the transformation to be genuine, the body ALSO has to attain a harmony above—above all illnesses and accidents. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/12/july-10-1971#p12</ref>
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On one side there is the claim that illness and the rest should be impossible, on the other a violent rejection of the only condition under which these things can become impossible...but that is one reason why it is necessary to transform the human and put something a little more luminous in its place. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p35</ref>