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→What Illness Is Not?
You are given an illness purposely to make you progress? Surely it is not like that...You must never think that the Divine has purposely sent an illness, for that would truly be a very wicked Divine!... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p2</ref>
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To make people ill in order to improve or perfect them is not Mother's method… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/difficulties-experienced-in-the-process-of-descent#p18</ref>
==Virtue==
...The child must be taught as early as possible...that he does not become more interesting by being ill, but rather the contrary...Children should therefore be taught that to be ill is a sign of weakness and inferiority, not of some virtue or sacrifice.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/physical-education#p9</ref> <center>~</center>
...illness is a thing to be eliminated, not accepted or enjoyed... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p58</ref>
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...you have not to accept illness as the Divine Will, but rather look upon it as an imperfection of the body… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/equality-the-chief-support#p18</ref>
==Result of the Divine Force==
The Divine Force cannot by its descent be the cause of madness any more than it can be of apoplexy or any other physical illness… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/accidents-possession-madness#p30</ref> <center>~</center>
Whatever force is sent is for cure. Increase of illness or physical suffering is not the result of the force. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p14</ref>
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I find it difficult to believe that illness and deterioration of the body is the natural and general result of the practice of Yoga or that that practice is the cause of an inevitable breakdown of health...It is more rational to conclude that both Yogis and non-Yogis fall ill and die from natural causes and by the same dispensation of Nature… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p8</ref>
As for the question about the illness, perfection in the physical plane is indeed part of the ideal of the Yoga, but ...one may have a certain perfection on other planes without having immunity in the body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p57</ref>
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...the outer expression of a disorder, such as swollen legs or a malfunctioning liver—...a functional disorder…. IT IN NO WAY CHANGES THE BODY'S TRUE CONSCIOUSNESS. Although we are in the habit of thinking that the body is very disturbed when it's ill, when something is going wrong, it's not so. It isn't disturbed in the way we understand it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/january-31-1961#p3</ref>