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<center>~</center> ...any discomfort, any disease is a falsehood… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/12/september-29-1971#p6</ref> <center>~</center> ...falsehood in the body is a falsehood in the consciousness The falsity of the consciousness naturally has material consequences... and that's what illness is!...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/october-2-1961#p15</ref> <center>~</center> An illness is...quite simply, always and in every case, even when doctors tell you there are germs—in every case it's a disequilibrium in the being: a disequilibrium between various functionings, a disequilibrium between forces… forces....

Illness is always a lapse into unconsciousness through ...it as an imperfection of the incapacity body to sustain the movement be got rid of as you try to get rid of transformationvital imperfections or mental errors... <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0829/januaryequality-the-25chief-1967support#p24p18</ref>

It...falsehood in the body is a falsehood in the consciousness The falsity of the consciousness naturally has material consequences... and that's [ what illness is] the EXACT measure of what in Matter resists the divine Influence—the exact measure, down to the atom!...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0802/februaryoctober-82-19671961#p7p15</ref>

All disease is a means towards some new joy of healthEach illness represents its own vibratory mode....  [Based on Aphorism<135>]All disease is Each illness has its own vibratory mode; it represents a means towards some new joy whole field of health, all evil and pain a tuning of Nature for some more intense bliss and good, all death an opening on widest immortalityvibrations to be corrected. Why and how this should be so, is GodIt's secret which only the soul purified EXACT measure of egoism can penetratewhat in Matter resists the divine Influence—the exact measure, down to the atom.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/1108/marchfebruary-48-19701967#p1p7</ref>

An epidemic is a ''collective '' illness and comes from a ''collective '' impurity… The forms of illness vary according to the condition of each person and his link with the whole.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/8-july-1964#p3</ref> <center>~</center><center>~</center> An illness which comes in the ordinary course as the result of physical causes—even though adverse universal forces are the first cause—is an ordinary illness… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p17</ref>

One [illness]brought by the forces hostile to Yoga to upset In its lowest parts (vital-material) it is the system and prevent or disturb progress—without any adequate agent of pain, physical reason—is a hostile attack.illness etc.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3128/illnessthe-andphysical-healthconsciousness#p17p25</ref>

No two All life is the play of universal forces. The individual gives a personal form to these universal forces. But he can choose whether he shall respond or not to the action of a particular force. Only most people do not really choose—they undergo the play of the forces. Your illnesses are alike, though labels depressions etc. are putthe repeated play of such forces...to group It is only when one can make oneself free of them; but in fact every that one can be the true person is ill and have a true life—but one can be free only by living in his own way, and his way depends on what he is, on his state of consciousness and the life he leadsDivine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0928/19-juneoccult-1957knowledge#p2p9</ref>

<center>~</center> ...health or illness is... a choice of every minute... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/june-15-1968#p15</ref> <center>~</center> All life is the play of universal forces...most people...undergo the play of the forces.Your illnesses, depressions etc. are the repeated play of such forces… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/occult-knowledge#p9</ref>=Why Illness Develops?=

=What =Causes of Illness Is Not?==

Illness must That depends on the person! If it is someone who is doing yoga, it is quite obviously a difficulty in his spiritual life. If it is somebody who is not at all engaged in yoga and who lives an ordinary life in the most ordinary manner, it is an ordinary accident. It depends absolutely on the person. The outer phenomena may be accepted as similar, but the inner causes are absolutely different. No two illnesses are alike, though labels are put on diseases and attempts made to group them; but in fact every person is ill in his own way, and his way depends on what he is, on his state of consciousness and the life he leads.We have often said that illnesses are always the result of a disturbance of equilibrium, but this disturbance can occur in completely different states of being. For the ordinary man whose consciousness is centred in the physical, outer life, it is a means purely physical disturbance of equilibrium, of the functioning of the different organs. But when behind this purely superficial life, an inner life is being fashioned, the causes of transformationillness change; it rather indicates certain difficulties encountered by they always become the expression of a disequilibrium between the force different parts of transformation especially in the vital being: between the inner progress or effort and the body… <ref>http://incarnatewordouter resistances or conditions of one's life, one's body.Even from the ordinary external point of view, it has been recognised for a very long time that it is a fall in/cwsa/31/the resistance of the vitality due to immediate moral causes which is always at the origin of an illness-. When one is in a normal state of equilibrium and-health#p4</ref> ==Progress== You are given lives in a normal physical harmony, the body has a capacity of resistance, it has within it an illness purposely atmosphere strong enough to resist illnesses: its most material substance emanates subtle vibrations which have the strength to make you progress? Surely it resist illnesses, even diseases which are called contagious—in fact, all vibrations are contagious, but still, certain diseases are considered as especially contagious. Well, a man who, even from the purely external point of view, is in a state in which his organs function harmoniously and an adequate psychological balance prevails, has at the same time enough resistance for the contagion not like thatto affect him.But if for some reason or other he loses this equilibrium or is weakened by depression, dissatisfaction, moral difficulties or undue fatigue, for instance, this reduces the normal resistance of the body and he is open to the disease..You must never think But if we consider someone who is doing yoga, then it is altogether different, in the sense that the Divine causes of disequilibrium are of a different nature and the illness usually becomes the expression of an inner difficulty which has purposely sent an illness, for that would truly to be a very wicked Divine!.overcome.So each one should find out for himself why he is ill. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0509/2219-julyjune-19531957#p2p1,p3,p4,p5</ref>

To make people ill in order It's the effect of a combination of three things: bad will (at the worst, a refusal to improve follow the movement), a more or perfect them less total bad will; an ignorance of the laws and their consequences, that is not Mother, the causes and effects (a complete ignorance); and, of course, a form of inertia—it's method… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/difficulties-experienced-in-all a form of inertia, but the-process-greatest form of-descent#p18</ref> ==Virtue== The child must be taught as early as possibleinertia is the incapacity to receive and respond...that he does not become more interesting by being illThese three things combined are what creates diseases and so on, but rather and the contrary.final effect—death..Children should therefore be taught that to be ill That is a sign of weakness and inferiority, not the disintegration of some virtue or sacrificecreated harmony. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1209/physicalmarch-2-education1968#p9p38</ref>

The nervous (vital-physical) being supports the body—if it is calm and strong and solid, then the body is well supported and can withstand illness and weakness or, if illness comes, it will bear and more easily get rid of it.If the nervous being is weak, then it is the opposite..illness If the nervous being is a thing to be eliminatednot merely weak, but nervous and unstable, over-sensitive, not accepted vehement or enjoyed... <ref>http://incarnateword.excitable, then there is much fluctuation, restlessness, exaltation and depression in the being—there may even be a wrongly acute creative imagination which brings in/cwsa/31/disorders into the body that are nervous and not physical—there is no physical illness-of the heart but there are pains and palpitations, nothing physically wrong with stomach and intestines and yet there is inability to digest—nervous dyspepsia; pains are created in different parts of the body and-health#p58</ref>so on—sometimes there is hysteria.

<center>~</center> ...you have These conditions are not always native to accept illness as the Divine Willbody—they are often created by troubles in the life, but rather look upon some disturbing illness or other reasons—but often it as an imperfection of is due to some hereditary cause or otherwise native to the body… <ref>http://incarnatewordsystem.in/cwsa/29/equality-the-chief-support#p18</ref> ==Result Women tend to get like this sometimes if there is disorder 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… menstruation. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/accidentsillness-possessionand-madnesshealth#p30p49,p50</ref>

Whatever force is sent is for cure. Increase of illness or physical suffering is not the result of the forceDepression and discouragement have a very adverse effect; they cut out holes in it [nervous envelope], as it were, in its very stuff, render it weak and unresisting and open to hostile attacks an easy passage. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/illness16-andjune-health1929#p14p11</ref>

I find it difficult to believe that illness and deterioration of ...the body 's whole functioning is the natural a discipline, and general result of if there is a part that no longer wants to follow the practice discipline—out of Yoga revolt or incapacity 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> ==Imperfection in Other Parts== As for any reason—if it stops following the question about the illnessdiscipline, 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 bodyyou fall ill. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3110/illnessfebruary-and8-health1969#p57p37</ref>

...all disorders in the outer expression body and all diseases are the result of DOUBT in the cells or a disordercertain group of cells. They doubt the Divine's concrete reality, they doubt the Divine Presence in them, such as swollen legs or a malfunctioning liver—they doubt their being divine in their very essence, and this doubt is the cause of all disorders.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/may-14-1964#p4</ref>.a functional disorder…. IT IN NO WAY CHANGES THE BODY'S TRUE CONSCIOUSNESS. Although we are in the habit cause of thinking disease is psychic, that is to say, subjective and the direction should be towards curing the inner causes much more than patching up by physical means. These are ideas that have their truth also. I fully recognise the body is very disturbed when it's illpsychic law and methods and their preferability, when something but the ordinary run of humanity is going wrongnot ready for that rule and, while it's not is so. It isn't disturbed in the way we understand it, doctors and their physical methods will be there. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0228/januarymorality-31and-1961yoga#p3p46</ref>

==IncurableSubconscient==

There is no If you drink unfiltered water and think, "Now I am drinking impure water", you have every chance of falling sick. And even though such thing as an incurable illness in reality—for what suggestions may not enter through the conscious mind, the doctors call such whole of your subconscious is only an illness for which they have not yet been able there, almost helplessly open to discover take any kind of suggestion. In life it is the action of the subconscious that has the larger share and it acts a physical remedy… hundred times more powerfully than the conscious parts.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other19-physicalmay-problems1929#p1p18</ref>

It's In the realm that's... beyond subconscient there is an obscure mind full of obstinate Sanskaras [imprints or habits], impressions, associations, fixed notions, habitual reactions formed by our past, an obscure vital full of the subtle physicalseeds of habitual desires, sensations and it's nervous reactions, a most obscure material which governs much that has to do with the realm in which formations condition of illness MATERIALIZE.the body.It is largely responsible for our illnesses; chronic or repeated illnesses are indeed mainly due to the subconscient and its obstinate memory and habit of repetition of whatever has impressed itself upon the body-consciousness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0409/decemberjune-2515-19631968#p13p6</ref>

...all disorders...Out of the subconscious we bring ordinarily so much to the surface as our waking sense mind and all diseases intelligence need for their purpose; in so bringing them up we are the result not aware of DOUBT their nature, origin, operation and do not apprehend them in their own values but by a translation into the cellsvalues of our waking human sense and intelligence.But the risings of the subconscious, its effects upon the mind and body, are mostly automatic, uncalled for and involuntary; for we have no knowledge and therefore no control of the subconscient..they doubt the Divine Presence It is only by an experience abnormal to us, most commonly in themillness or some disturbance of balance, they doubt their being divine that we can become directly aware of something in their the dumb world, dumb but very essenceactive, of our bodily being and this doubt vitality or grow conscious of the secret movements of the mechanical subhuman physical and vital mind which underlies our surface,—a consciousness which is ours but seems not ours because it is not part of our known mentality. This and much more lives concealed in the cause of all disorders subconscience.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0522/mayout-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-14sevenfold-1964knowledge#p4p9</ref>

Yet all the time the universal forces are pouring into him without his knowing it...the cause He is aware only of disease is psychicthoughts, feelings etc. that is rise to saythe surface and these he takes for his own. Really they come from outside in mind waves, subjective vital waves, waves of feeling and sensation etc. which take particular forms in him and rise to the surface after they have got inside.But they do not get into his body at once. He carries about with him an environmental consciousness (called by the direction should Theosophists the aura) into which they first enter. If you can become conscious of this environmental self of yours, then you can catch the thought, passion, suggestion or force of illness, or whatever it may be towards curing , before it enters and prevent it from entering into you. If things in you are thrown out, they often do not go altogether but take refuge in this environmental atmosphere and from there try to get in again or they go to a distance outside but linger on the inner causes much more than patching up by physical means… outskirts or even perhaps far off, waiting till they get an opportunity to attempt entrance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/moralitythe-andenvironmental-yogaconsciousness#p46p6</ref>

In its lowest parts (vital-material) it When the physical consciousness is being changed, the chief resistance comes from the subconscient. It is constantly maintaining or bringing back the agent inertia, weakness, obscurity, lack of painintelligence which afflict the physical mind and vital or the obscure fears, desires, angers, lusts of the physical illness etcvital, or the illnesses, dullnesses, pains, incapabilities to which the body-nature is prone..<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-physical-consciousness#p25</ref>

It [fear] is more dangerous than ==Role of the worst disease. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/fear#p30</ref> <center>~</center>Vital==

If there is one mental disorder which can bring about all illnessesAll this egoistic insistence on your own ideas, it is fearclaims, preferences—assertion of your own righteousness as against the wickedness of others, complaints, quarrels, disputes, rancours against those around you and the reactions they cause—have had this effect on your liver and stomach and nerves.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0431/31doctors-marchand-1951medicines#p3p9</ref>

If you receive a blow in the vital, the body suffers the consequence...fear always brings what More than half of our illnesses are the result of blows of this kind, and this happens much more often than one fearsbelieves. If you fear an accidentOnly, men are not conscious of their vital, this acts like a magnet drawing and as they are not conscious they don't know that fifty per cent of their illnesses are the result of what happens in the accident towards youvital: shocks, accidents, fighting, ill-will....And the same thing holds for Externally this is translated by an illness.If one knows how it reacts on the physical, one goes to its source and can cure oneself in a few hours.. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0605/2729-januaryapril-19541953#p6p8</ref>

In factUnfortunately, ninety per cent of illnesses are the result of there is the subconscient fear of vital which pokes its nose into the body.In the ordinary consciousness of the body there is affair and takes a more or less hidden anxiety about very perverse pleasure in increasing, twisting, sharpening the consequences of the slightest physical disturbance..suffering.Now this anxiety is a lack deforms the whole system because instead of confidence in being an indicator, sometimes it becomes an occasion for enjoying the Divine's Graceillness, for making oneself interesting,and also having the unmistakable sign that opportunity to pity oneself—all kinds of things which all come from the consecration is not complete vital and perfectare all detestable, one more than another.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1506/fear17-andnovember-illness1954#p3p20</ref>

If you have fear or apprehension of illness Illness in the body is like impurity in your the vital, ...It may happen that is in throwing out the illness (the first thing to be thrown awayattacking force) one throws out also something within, as some impurity which helped it helps the illnesses to come , but that is the result of a Force working within and not of the illness. It is quite possible that an illness or attack can be transferred in. this way from one to another and indeed it very commonly happens… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p69p62</ref>

...they say they're one must be very careful and look at oneself with great discrimination to discover the small part in oneself that—how to put it?—takes pleasure in being ill. Oh! there are many reasons. There are people who are illout of spite, and so they there are afraid. It's not true! They people who are afraid firstill out of hate, and then they fall there are people who are illthrough despair, there are people... They constantly live with And these are not formidable movements: it is quite a sort of apprehensionsmall movement in the being: one is vexed and says: "Oh, You will see what's is going to happen?" So something happens, you will see the consequences of what he has done to me! Let it come! I am going to be ill...The poor body feels that's what is expected of " One does not say itopenly to oneself, and it obeys! for one would scold oneself, but there is something somewhere that thinks in that way. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0705/october22-22july-19661953#p5p57</ref>

...a fear in vital when left to itself often invites illness, it finds it dramatic—thinks it makes it interesting to others, likes to indulge the cells—is fear which opens the door to all contagion.tamas, etc.etc. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0931/19illness-juneand-1957health#p6p63</ref>

Diseases are just , accidents, catastrophes, wars, all that, is because the human material consciousness is so small, so narrow that it has a rabid taste for drama. And of course, behind there is the vital being having fun, influences too...The two anyway all that enjoys an opportunity to delay the divine Work and make things together: possession and fear,..difficult. And a sense of helplessness all that takes pleasure in all thatnaturally encourages drama. The possession by But the seed of the difficulty is that pettiness, extreme pettiness of the physical consciousness—the material physical consciousness—which has an idea and absolutely perverse taste for drama. Drama—the slightest thing has to make a drama: if you have a helplessness to reject toothache, it... And then becomes a sort of fearfulness that is translated in us bydrama; if you bang against something, "Ohit becomes a drama; if two nations quarrel, it's going to be that way.becomes a drama—everything becomes a drama.The taste for drama. The slightest upset in the body, the least disorder, which should go completely unnoticed, oh, it's going to be makes a big fuss,a disease..drama.The taste for drama." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0608/decemberjune-1814-19651967#p9p3</ref>

The real disease feeling of illness is fearat first only a suggestion; it becomes a reality because your physical consciousness accepts it. Throw It is like a wrong suggestion in the fear away mind; if the mind accepts it, it becomes clouded and confused and has to struggle back into harmony and clearness. It is so with the disease will gobody consciousness and illness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1531/fearillness-and-health#p22</ref>When a force is thrown on you or a vibration of illness, it carries to the body this suggestion. A wave comes in the body—with a certain vibration in it, the body remembers "cold" or feels the vibrations of a cold and begins to cough or sneeze or to feel chill—the suggestion comes to the mind in the form, "I am weak, I don't feel well, I am catching a cold."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p24</ref>That is how illnesses try to come from one person to another—they attack, by a suggestion like this or otherwise, the nervous being and try to come in. Even if the illness is not contagious, this often happens, but it comes more easily in contagious illnesses.The suggestion or touch has to be thrown off at once. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p9p31</ref>

==SubconscientFear==

In the subconscient there The first thing from which you must cure yourself once for ever, is an obscure mind full of obstinate Sanskaras [imprints or habits], ''Fear''...habitual reactions formed by our past, an obscure vital...a most obscure material which governs... with It is more dangerous than the condition of the bodyworst disease. It is largely responsible for our illnesses… <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0914/june-15-1968fear#p6p30,p31</ref>

The subconscient If there is the main...support of death and disease and ...of... Ignorance..one mental disorder which can bring about all illnesses, it is fear.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2804/the-subconscient-and31-themarch-inconscient1951#p37p3</ref>

Not be afraid of falling ill! That's what.You see, they say, "But I AM ill." They put it the other way around: they say they're ill, and so they are afraid.subconscient ...remains submerged It's not true! They are afraid first, and obscurely at work below our conscious naturethen they fall ill...into which past impressions and all They constantly live with a sort of apprehension: "Oh, what's going to happen?" So something happens! (Mother laughs) The poor body feels that 's what is rejected from the surface mind sink and remain there dormant and can surge up in sleep or in any absence expected of the mindit,…forms of automatic vital reaction or impulse, forms of physical abnormality or nervous perturbance, forms of morbidity, disease, unbalance...and it obeys! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/2207/outoctober-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-sevenfold22-knowledge1966#p9p4</ref>

If things in you 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 thrown outafraid of everything that is unpleasant, painful, and as soon as there is any unease, even if it is insignificant, the cells of the body become anxious, they often do don't like to be uncomfortable. And then, to overcome that, the control of a conscious will is necessary. It is usually this kind of fear that opens the door to illnesses. And I am not go altogether but take refuge in this[speaking of the] environmental atmosphere and from there try first two types of fear which, as I said, any human being who wants to get be human in again or they go the noblest sense of the word, must overcome, for that is cowardice. But physical fear is more difficult to overcome; without it even the most violent attacks could be repelled. If one has a distance outside minimum of control over the body, one can lessen its effects, but linger on that is not immunity. It is this kind of trembling of material, physical fear in the cells of the outskirts or even perhaps far off, waiting till they get an opportunity to attempt entrancebody which aggravates all illnesses. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2809/the19-environmentaljune-consciousness1957#p6</ref>

The suggestions We know that create illness or unhealthy conditions fear always brings what one fears. If you fear an accident, this acts like a magnet drawing the accident towards you. In this see, it may be said that it is the result of character. And the physical being come usually through same thing holds for illness. There are people who can move about among the subconscientsick and in places where there are epidemics and never catch a disease.There are others—it is enough for them to spend an hour with a sick person, they catch the illness.That too depends on what they are within themselves.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3106/illness27-andjanuary-health1954#p40p6</ref>

When the physical consciousness is being changedThe two things together: possession and fear, the chief resistance comes from the subconscienta sort of fearfulness. And a sense of helplessness in all that. It is constantly maintaining or bringing back the inertiaThe possession by an idea and a helplessness to reject it, weakness, obscurityand a fear,a helplessness to resist...or the illnessesAnd then a sort of fearfulness that is translated in us by, dullnesses"Oh, pains, incapabilities it's going to which the body-nature is pronebe that way. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-subconscient-and-the-inconscient#p17</ref> ==Forces of Disintegration== They[there] are forces of disintegration...this is the origin of germs and microbes. Therefore most microbes have behind them oh, it's going to be a bad will disease...The microbe is a very material expression of something living in a subtle physical world..." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0506/22december-july18-19531965#p49p9</ref>

The possibilities In fact, ninety per cent of illness illnesses are always there in your body and around you; you ...succumb to an illness ...due to a "depression the result of the subconscient fear of the vital force"..body.In the depression...comes from some disharmony in ordinary consciousness of the being, from body there is a lack more or less hidden anxiety about the consequences of receptivity to the divine forcesslightest physical disturbance. ...this depression...created[creates] ...a It can be translated by these words of doubt about the future: "favourable groundAnd what will happen?" and something takes advantage of it. ...It is this anxiety that must be checked. Indeed this anxiety is a lack of confidence in the Divine's Grace, the cause of your falling ill unmistakable sign that the consecration is not complete and not microbesperfect. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0315/19fear-mayand-1929illness#p14p3</ref>

<center>~</center> There is nothing that isn't a "microbe" or a "virus"... but it's all the same thing!... For the cells,the problem is...whether to follow the Will for Transformation...or whether to follow the Will for Harmony, which is always pleasant, and is always there, even when outwardly things are decomposing. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/july-7-1965#p7</ref> ==InertiaDisharmony== The human body has always been in the habit of answering to whatever forces chose to lay hands on it and illness is the price it pays for its inertia and ignorance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p77</ref>All ill-health is due to some inertia or weakness or to some resistance or wrong movement there [in the vital], only it has sometimes a more physical and sometimes a more psychological character... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p5</ref>

It's [ illness is] First of all, from the effect point of a combination view of three things: bad will (at the worst, a refusal to follow body—just the movement), body—there are two kinds of disequilibrium: functional and organic...an ignorance I do not know if you are aware of the laws and their consequences, that is, difference between the causes and effects (a complete ignorance)two; but you have organs and, of course, a form of inertia—it's then you have all a form the parts of inertiayour body: nerves, but the greatest form of inertia is the incapacity to receive and respond. These three things combined are what creates diseases and so onmuscles, bones and all the final effect—deathrest. That Now, if an organ by itself isin disequilibrium, the disintegration of created harmony.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/march-2-1968#p38</ref> ...the body's whole functioning it is a disciplinean organic disequilibrium, and if there you are told: that organ is a part that no longer wants to follow the discipline—out of revolt ill or incapacity perhaps it is badly formed orit is not normal or an accident has occurred to it... for any reason—if But it stops following is the discipline, you fall organ that is ill.<ref>httpBut the organ may be in a very good condition, all your organs may be in a very good condition, but there is still an illness as they do not function properly://incarnateword.there is a lack of balance in/agenda/10/february-8-1969#p37</ref> ==Resistance== the functioning...reaction against You may have a very good stomach, but suddenly something happens to it and it does not function properly; or the transformative will is what causes... disorders.body may also be excellent, but something happens to it and it does not work properly any more.Then you have an illness due to functional imbalance not organic imbalance. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0205/august22-8july-19611953#p4p31</ref>

...Human life and mind are neither in tune with Nature like the bodyanimals nor with Spirit—it [''human nature''] is disturbed, whatever has trouble adjusting to this new Power creates difficultiesincoherent, disorders conflicting with itself, without harmony and illnessesbalance. Yet in We can then regard it as diseased, if not itself a flash you sense that if you were totally receptive, you would become formidabledisease.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/1328/mayscience-6and-1972yoga#p32p69</ref>

Your inner condition becomes a cause The mind with its dogmas, its rigid and arbitrary principles, the vital with its passions, its excesses and dissipations soon destroy the natural balance of illness when there is a resistance ...or when there is some part in you that does not respond to the protection; or even... that almost ...wilfully calls body and create in the adverse forcesit fatigue, exhaustion and disease. It is enough if there is a slight movement of must be freed from this kind in you; the hostile forces are at once upon you tyranny and their attack takes often this can be done only through a constant union with the form psychic centre of illnessthe being.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0312/19the-mayscience-of-1929living#p12p14</ref>

This[The] divergence between the progress human body has always been in the inner being habit of answering to whatever forces chose to lay hands on it and illness is the price it pays for its inertia of the body often creates a dislocation and ignorance. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p78</ref>All ill-health is due to some inertia or weakness or to some resistance or wrong movement there [in the systemvital], only it has sometimes a more physical and that manifests itself as an illness..sometimes a more psychological character. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0331/16doctors-juneand-1929medicines#p6p5</ref>

Loss ...there is a group of such [feed upon human vitality thrown out of balance produces disorder in the consciousness body by emotions and excitements] small entities, they may clash with one another, because among themselves they do not have a very peaceful life: clashing with one another, fighting, destroying, demolishing each other. And that is the adverse origin of microbes. They are forces use of disintegration. But they continue to be alive even in their divided forms and this is the origin of germs and microbes. Therefore most microbes have behind them a bad will and that loss is what makes them so dangerous. And unless one knows the quality and kind of bad will and is capable of acting upon it, there is a ninety-nine per cent chance of balance not finding the true and complete remedy. The microbe is a very material expression of something living in a subtle physical world and that is why these very microbes... that are always around you, within you, for attacking… years together do not make you ill and then suddenly they make you fall ill. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/accidents22-possessionjuly-madness1953#p24p49</ref>

Attacks They speak of illness viruses, they speak of microbes, they speak... but we are attacks entirely made up of those things! It's only their interplay, their way of adjusting and harmonizing among themselves that makes all the lower nature difference. There is nothing that isn't a "microbe" or of adverse forces taking advantage of some weaknessa "virus"—they give ugly names to the things they don't want, but it's all the same thing!... For the cells, that's not the problem—the problem is not that, but whether to follow the Will for Transformation (which sometimes is a bit brutal—brutal compared to the very small thing a body is), opening or response in whether to follow the natureWill for Harmony...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3106/illnessjuly-and7-health1965#p15p7</ref>

...it is some part The possibilities of illness are always there in your body and around you; you carry within you orthere swarm about you the microbes and germs of every disease...How is it that all of a sudden you succumb to an illness which you did not have for years? You will say it is due to a fragment "depression of the vital that has gone wrong and wishes to be ill, ..force".But from where does the depression come? It comes from some disharmony in the situation gets complicated if behind this there is an attackbeing, from a pressure from adverse lack of receptivity to the divine forces who really want to harm . When you. You may have opened cut yourself off from the door through spiritual errorenergy and light that sustain you, through then there is this depression, there is created what medical science calls a movement "favourable ground" and something takes advantage of vanityit. It is doubt, gloominess, lack of angerconfidence, of hatred or of violence; even if it is merely a movement selfish turning back upon yourself that comes cuts you off from the light and divine energy and goes, gives the attack this advantage. It is this that can open is the doorcause of your falling ill and not microbes. There are always germs watching and only waiting for an occasion… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0503/2219-julymay-19531929#p60p14</ref>

Hostile [''source of illness''] here means hostile to the Yoga.An illness which comes in the ordinary course as the result of physical causes—even though adverse universal forces are the first cause—is an ordinary illness..when One brought by the forces hostile to Yoga to upset the mind system and consciousness prevent or disturb progress—without any adequate physical reason—is a hostile attack. It may have rejected the attacksappearance of a cold or any other illness, but to the eye which sees the contrary action of forces fall on some weak point in and not only the body hoping that by pain outward symptoms or illness they will depress results, the consciousness and so make it less strong to resist and reject them..difference is clear. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p95p17</ref>

Sometimes it's an altogether INSIGNIFICANT intrusion Attacks of illness are attacks of falsehood, for some quite insignificant reason—what is commonly labeled a stupidity. This stems from the fact that the lower nature or of adverse forces are always lying in wait, ready to rush in at the least sign taking advantage of some weakness. <ref>http://incarnateword., opening or response in/agenda/02/july-18-1961#p59</ref> ==Disharmony== ...the cause of all illnessesnature, —like all disorders, all conflicts, here in the material world, is other things that the two simultaneous movements (one is the movement of Stability—and the other, the movement of transformation), the two movements in the original Consciousness are only one come and...here, they are separate,...they don't KNOW how have got to be in harmony: they canthrown away, but they don't know... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/february-25-1970#p8</ref> <center>~</center> Human life and mind are neither in tune with Nature come from outside...nor with Spirit—it [human nature] is disturbed, incoherent, conflicting with itself, without harmony and balance. We can then regard it as diseased, if not itself a disease. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2831/scienceillness-and-yoga#p62</ref> ...if you choose and then draw back...always wavering, always doubting, always fearful, you create a disharmony in your being, which not only retards your progress, but can be the origin of all kinds of disturbance in the mind and vital being and discomfort and disease in the body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929health#p18p15</ref>

The mind with its dogmas...but it is not your consciousness that wants to be ill, its rigid and arbitrary principlesit is some part of your body or at the most, a fragment of the vital with its passionsthat has gone wrong and wishes to be ill, its excesses and dissipations soon destroy the natural balance unless you observe with a good deal of attention you do not notice it). But I say that the body and create in it fatiguesituation gets complicated if behind this there is an attack, exhaustion and diseasea pressure from adverse forces who really want to harm you. It must be freed from this tyranny and this can be done only You may have opened the door through spiritual error, through a constant union with the psychic centre movement of vanity, of anger, of hatred or of violence; even if it is merely a movement that comes and goes, that can open the being.door.There are always germs watching and only waiting for an occasion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1205/the22-science-ofjuly-living1953#p14p60</ref>

==In Specific IllnessesLack of Receptivity==

Fever is not a purifying action; it is the sign of an attack on And in the body , whatever has trouble adjusting to this new Power creates difficulties, disorders and illnesses. Yet in a fight flash you sense that if you were totally receptive, you would become formidable. That's the sensation. That's more and resistance more my sensation: that if the entire consciousness, the entire most material consciousness—the most material—was receptive to the attack… this new Power... one would become for-mi-dable.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3113/illnessmay-and6-health1972#p62p32</ref>

Insanity Your inner condition becomes a cause of illness when there is always due to a vital attack, resistance or revolt in it or rather possession although when there is often a physical reason as well. Hysteria is due some part in you that does not respond to a pressure from the vital world and protection; or even there may be momentary possessions also.something there that almost willingly and wilfully calls in the adverse forces.It is enough if there is a slight movement of this kind in you; the hostile forces are at once upon you and their attack takes often the form of illness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/accidents19-possessionmay-madness1929#p22p12</ref>

This divergence between the progress in the inner being and the inertia of the body often creates a dislocation in the system, and that manifests itself as an illness.This is why people who take up Yoga frequently begin by suffering from some physical discomfort or disorder.That need not happen if they are on their guard and careful.skin diseases have much to do with sexual desires—not Or if there is a greater and unusual receptivity in the body, then too they escape. But an unmixed receptivity making the physical parts closely follow the pace of course alwaysthe inner transformation is hardly possible, but oftenunless the body has already been prepared in the past for the processes of Yoga.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/sex16-june-1929#p216p6</ref>

TYou have been told: "Open yourself, you will receive the Force." You have been told: "Have faith, be of goodwill and you will be protected.B" And indeed you are bathed in the Consciousness, bathed in the Force, bathed in the Protection and to the extent you have faith and open yourself, you receive all that, and it helps you in keeping fit and in rejecting the little inner disturbances and re-establishing order when these come, in protecting yourself against small attacks or accidents which might have happened. But if somewhere in your being—either in your body or even in your vital or mind, either in several parts or even in a single one—there is an incapacity to receive the result descending Force, this acts like a grain of sand in a strong psychic-vital depressionmachine.You know, a fine machine working quite well with everything going all right, and you put into it just a little sand (nothing much, only a grain of sand), suddenly everything is damaged and the machine stops.Well, just a little lack of receptivity somewhere, something that is unable to receive the Force, that is completely shut up (when one looks at it, it becomes as it were a little dark spot somewhere, a tiny thing hard as a stone: the Force cannot enter into it, it refuses to receive it—either it cannot or it will not) and immediately that produces a great imbalance; and this thing that was moving upward, that was blooming so wonderfully, finds itself sick, and sometimes just when you were in the normal equilibrium; you were in good health, everything was going on well, you had nothing to complain about. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other22-physicaljuly-problems1953#p4p41</ref>

Depression ...people...drink wine as one drinks water. They drink it neat, and after some time they become ill. They have cerebral disorders...people of this kind, the brain was disordered, didn't function any more. And tobacco—nicotine is always a very serious poison. It is a poison that destroys the sign of an acute egoismcells...it is a slow poison because one doesn't feel it immediately except when one smokes for the first time and it makes one very ill. When And this should make you feel understand that it ought not to be done. Only, people are so stupid that they think it is coming neara weakness and so continue until they get used to the poison. And the body no longer reacts, tell yourselfit allows itself to be destroyed without reacting: "I am in a state you get rid of egoistic illness, I must cure myself of itthe reaction." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0406/2524-decembermarch-19501954#p29p4</ref>

=Why Illness Develops?=In Specific Illnesses==

<center>~</center> ...when you take Fever is not a wrong attitude, purifying action; it immediately sets off all is the sign of an attack on the body and a fight and resistance to the disorders..attack. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0331/juneillness-20and-1962health#p6p62</ref>

If the nervous being Insanity is always due to a vital attack, or rather possession although there isoften a physical reason as well...nervous Hysteria is due to a pressure from the vital world and unstable...excitable, then ...there may even be a wrongly acute creative imagination which brings in disorders into the body that are nervous and not physical..momentary possessions also. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illnessaccidents-andpossession-healthmadness#p49p22</ref>

Depression and discouragement have a very adverse effect; they cut out holes in it[nervous envelope],... render it weak and ...open skin diseases have much to hostile attacks..do with sexual desires—not of course always, but often. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0331/16-june-1929sex#p216</ref>

T.B..passive meditation...leaves is the result of a strong psychic-vital and body passive and without defence against inertia, illness etcdepression...The consciousness instead lack of being concentrated gets widely diffused and loosely extended.vitality which easily comes as a result of modern civilisation is therefore a very strong contributing cause..Concentration must in Moderns have not the earlier stages be active solid nervous system and dynamic with the consciousness gathered natural (as opposed to the artificial and capable morbid) zest of turning the will in any directionlife that their ancestors had.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2931/concentrationspecific-illnesses-ailments-and-meditationother-physical-problems#p86p4</ref>

The psychical prana interferes in all the higher operations to deform them,... limits thereby the operations of the mind and becomes the link of its dependence on the body and its subjection to fatigue, incapacity, disease, disorder, insanity, the pettiness, the precariousness and even the possible dissolution of the workings of the physical mentality… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-the-lower-mentality#p5</ref> ==Affinity in the Being== ...if the illness has succeeded in touching the physical-physical...If it manages to pass through, to enter without one's being aware of it, it means there is some affinity somewhere, and the part of the being which has responded must be convinced. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p22</ref> <center>~</center> ...the sages say, "Disorder occurs because the nature has decided to be in disorder," it's not so silly.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/may-8-1965#p39</ref> <center>~</center> In the psychological domain, only the patients who do not want to recover, do not recover. Perhaps it is the same for physical diseases... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/5-january-1933#p3</ref> <center>~</center> ...people always think that it is not their fault that they are ill, and it is always their fault, and they are very angry when they are told this...And yet it Depression is true. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/16-february-1955#p37</ref> <center>~</center> Disease will always return to the body if the soul is flawed; for the sins sign of the mind are the secret cause of the sins of the body… [Based on Aphorism 199 - Disease will always return to the body if the soul is flawed; for the sins of the mind are the secret cause of the sins of the body. So too poverty and trouble will always return on man in society, so long as the mind of the race is subjected to an acute egoism.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-199-200#p1</ref> <center>~</center> Disease is needlessly prolonged and ends in death oftener than is inevitable, because the mind of the patient supports and dwells upon the disease of his body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-386-387-388-389#p1</ref> [Aphorism 386] ==To Teach a Lesson== ...all the so-called illnesses, everything, all the disorders are to make When you learn a lesson—as soon as you've learned the lesson, it's over! But then, you are so slow and heavy, you take so much time to realize that it's a lesson feel that it drags on and on and on. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/october-14-1964#p63</ref> <center>~</center> It is to make you understand that whenever you are ill, something is ill in your being.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/april-24-1960#p1</ref> <center>~</center> One thinks of curing an illness only because one suffers. If it caused you no unpleasantness, you would never think of being cured of it. So, in the economy of Nature I think that the first purpose of physical suffering was to give you a warning. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p19</ref> <center>~</center> Your illness gave you an opportunity to open your eyes towards the need for an inner change. You must take advantage of this and progress. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/inner-causes-of-illness#p28</ref> <center>~</center> The illness has come like a test and gone like a purification carrying away all that was standing in the way of the joy of an integral consecration. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/inner-causes-of-illness#p17</ref> <center>~</center> ...the state of illness was certainly a necessity, often a WILLED necessity ...by the soul in order to go faster on the path—to save time, to gain lives. And if you can, if you have the power to bring that soul into contact with the force that governs its existence and leads it towards progress, towards the Realization, you do a work of quite a superior quality.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/september-26-1964#p32</ref> ==Old Habit of Consciousness== ...the body consciousness through old habit of consciousness admits the force of illness…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p54</ref> <center>~</center> When you are open and in contact with the Divine, the Vibration gives you strength, energy; and if you are quiet enough, it fills you with great joy—and all of this in the cells of the body. You fall back into the ordinary consciousness and straightaway, without anything changing, the SAME thing, the SAME vibration coming from the SAME source turns into a pain, a malaise, a feeling of uncertaintynear, instability and decrepitude… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/october-2-1961#p15</ref> ==In Addictions== ...they ...drink wine as one drinks water. They drink it neat, and after some time they become ill. They have cerebral disorders... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/24-march-1954#p4</ref> <center>~</center> ...nicotine is a very serious poison. It is a poison that destroys the cells...when one smokes for the first time and it makes one very ill. And this should make you understand that it ought not to be done. Only, people are so stupid that they think it is a weakness and so continue until they get used to the poison. And the body no longer reacts, it allows itself to be destroyed without reacting: you get rid of the reaction. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/24-march-1954#p4</ref> ==Role of Suggestions== The feeling of illness is at first only a suggestion; it becomes a reality because your physical consciousness accepts it...It is so with the body consciousness and illness... <ref>httptell yourself://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p22</ref> <center>~</center> When a force is thrown on you or a vibration of illness, it carries to the body this suggestion...—the suggestion comes to the mind in the form, "I am weak, I don't feel well, I am catching a cold." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p24</ref> <center>~</center> If you drink unfiltered water and think, "Now I am drinking impure water", you have every chance of falling sick. And even though such suggestions may not enter through the conscious mind, the whole of your subconscious is there, almost helplessly open to take any kind of suggestion. In life it is the action of the subconscious that has the larger share and it acts a hundred times more powerfully than the conscious parts. The normal human condition is a state filled with apprehensions and fears;...To be free from all fear can come only by steady effort and discipline... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p18</ref> <center>~</center> ... illnesses try to come from one person to another—they attack, by a suggestion... or otherwise, the nervous being and try to come in. Even if the illness is not contagious, this often happens, but it comes more easily in contagious illnesses. The suggestion or touch has to be thrown off at once. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p31</ref> <center>~</center> Something is wrong here or there in the body, a small thing;... If you are unfortunate enough to utter a word about it to anyone, and especially to the doctor...it instantly becomes an illness…. it's because the cells that are in disorder feel all of a sudden they are very important and very interesting persons!... If they have a movement that isn't harmonious, they exaggerate it—it becomes even less harmonious in order to assert itself more <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/august-4-1965#p33</ref> ==Role of Vital== ...the main obstacle is your own vital movements. ...Quietness of the mind in facing your illness is also necessary—agitation stops the action of the Force. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p9</ref> <center>~</center> If you receive a blow in the vital, the body suffers the consequence... illnesses are the result of what happens in the vital: shocks, accidents, fighting, ill-will.... Externally this is translated by an illness. If one knows how it reacts on the physical, one goes to its source and can cure oneself in a few hours. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/29-april-1953#p8</ref> <center>~</center> ...there is the vital which...takes a very perverse pleasure in... suffering...sometimes it becomes an occasion for enjoying the egoistic illness...all kinds of things which all come from the vital and are all detestable, ...But originally I think that it was this: "Take care!" it's like a danger-signal: "Take care, there's something out of order."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p20</ref> <center>~</center> ...vital when left to itself often invites illness, it finds it dramatic—thinks it makes it interesting to others, likes to indulge the tamas, etc. etc. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p63</ref>  <center>~</center> ...there is always something in the vital physical which is pleased with becoming more weak and ill so that it can feel and lament its tragic case. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p64</ref>  <center>~</center> Illness in the body is like impurity in the vital,...It may happen that in throwing out the illness (the attacking force) one throws out also something within, some impurity which helped it to come, but that is the result of a Force working within and not of the illness. It is quite possible that an illness or attack can be transferred in this way from one to another and indeed it very commonly happens… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p62</ref> <center>~</center> Diseases, accidents, catastrophes, wars, all that, is because the human material consciousness is so small, so narrow that it has a rabid taste for drama. And of course, behind there is the vital being having fun, influences too... all that enjoys an opportunity to delay the divine Work and make things difficult... But the seed of the difficulty is ...extreme pettiness of...the material physical consciousness—which has an absolutely perverse taste for drama... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/june-14-1967#p3</ref> <center>~</center> ...one must be very careful and look at oneself with great discrimination to discover the small part in oneself that...takes pleasure in being ill... there are many reasons. There are people who are ill out of spite,...out of hate...through despair, there are people... one is vexed and says: "...you will see the consequences cure myself of what he has done to me! Let it come! I am going to be ill." One does not say it openly to oneself, for one would scold oneself, but there is something somewhere that thinks in that way. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p57</ref> <center>~</center> ...[if] the illness returns. This means that the cause has not been changed, that the cause is in the vital and is still there; it is only the effect which has been cured. But if one can act simultaneously upon both the cause and the effect, and the cause is sufficiently receptive to consent to change, then one is completely cured, once for all.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/3125-marchdecember-19511950#p13p29</ref>

First''Sweet Mother, not to want to be illwhen one sees an illness coming, and then not to be afraid of illness. You must neither attract it nor tremble. You must not want illness at all. But you must not because of fear not want how can one stop it; you must not be afraid; you must have a calm certitude and a complete trust in the power of the Grace to shelter you from everything...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/11-may-1955#p13</ref>?''

We ought The second condition is to use call the divine health in us light, a light of equilibrium, a light of peace, quietude and balance, and to cure and prevent diseases... <ref>http://incarnatewordpush it into all the cells of the body, enjoining them not to be afraid, because that again is another condition.in/cwm/10/aphorism-394-395-396-397-398-399#p1</ref>

The secret Many people say, "Oh, yes, here I am not afraid." They don't have any fear in the mind, their mind is to emerge from the egonot afraid, get out of its prisonit is strong, unite ourselves with it is not afraid; but the Divinebody trembles, merge into Himand one doesn't know it, not to allow anything to separate us from Himbecause it is in the cells of the body that the trembling goes on. There It trembles with a terrible anxiety and this is no what attracts the illness, no disorder which can resist . It is there that you must put the force and the discovery quietude of this secret a perfect peace and an absolute trust in the putting Grace. And then, sometimes you are obliged to drive away with a similar force in your thought all suggestions that after all, the physical world is full of illnesses, and these are contagious, and because one was in contact with somebody who is ill, one is sure to catch it into practice, and then, that the inner methods are not only in powerful enough to act on the higher parts physical, and all kinds of the being but in the cells stupidities of which the bodyair is full. These are collective suggestions which are passed on from one person to another by everybody.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0907/1311-februarymay-19571955#p10,p11,p12,p13,p14</ref>

When people are ill That is why, as soon as the child is able to make use of his limbs, some time should be devoted every day to the methodical and get well quicklyregular development of all the parts of his body. Every day some twenty or thirty minutes, preferably on waking, if possible, they are full will be enough to ensure the proper functioning and balanced growth of gratitude; but never do they think his muscles while preventing any stiffening of being grateful when they are well; the joints and yet that is a of the spine, which occurs much greater miracle!sooner than one thinks.In the general programme of the child's education, sports and outdoor games should be given a prominent place; that, more than all the medicines in the world, will assure the child good health.An hour's moving about in the sun does more to cure weakness or even anaemia than a whole arsenal of tonics. <ref>http://incarnatewordMy advice is that medicines should not be used unless it is absolutely impossible to avoid them; and this "absolutely impossible" should be very strict.In this programme of physical culture, although there are well-known general lines to be followed for the best development of the human body, still, if the method is to be fully effective in/cwm/05/23-december-1953#p52</ref> <center>~</center>each case, it should be considered individually, if possible with the help of a competent person, or if not, by consulting the numerous manuals that have already been and are still being published on the subject.

For you to be able to do all kinds But in any case a child, whatever his activities, should have a sufficient number of hours of things sleep.The number will vary according to his age.In the cradle, the baby should sleep longer than he remains awake.you must have a triple equilibrium—mental, vital, physical—and not only in each The number of hours of sleep will diminish as the partschild grows. But until maturity it should not be less than eight hours, but also in a quiet, well-ventilated place. The child should never be made to stay up late for no reason. The hours before midnight are the best for resting the nerves. Even during the three parts in waking hours, relaxation is indispensable for all who want to maintain their mutual relations..nervous balance.To know how to relax the muscles and the nerves is an art which should be taught to children when they are very young. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0512/22-julyphysical-1953education#p30p9,p10,p11</ref>

...particular Asanas have even there are those who are luminous, sunny, happy, smiling and those who are gloomy, dull, misanthropic, dissatisfied, who live in grey shadows. It is the latter who catch all the unpleasant things. Those who are radiant (they may be radiant without it being a spiritual radiance, it may be just a radiation of good see, balance, an effect inner confidence, the joy of living), those who carry in destroying particular diseasesthemselves the joy of living, these are in harmony with Nature and,—and being in harmony with Pranayama maintains perfectly the health of Nature, generally avoid accidents, they are immune from diseases and their life develops pleasantly as far as it is possible in the body..world as it is. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2306/hathayoga27-january-1954#p10p8</ref>

The secret is to emerge from the ego, get out of its prison, unite ourselves with the Divine, merge into Him, not to allow anything to separate us from Him...Then, once one has discovered this secret and realises it in Yogaone's being, pain loses its justification and suffering disappears...faith and right autoIt is an all-suggestion are powerful remedy, not only in the deeper parts of great use until the point comes when no suggestion is necessary because being, in the soul, in the Truth-spiritual consciousness acts automatically , but also in life and produces its natural results.<ref>http://incarnatewordin the body.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p39</ref>

...as If one knows how to teach the cells the consciousness becomes more subtle by practice of Yogasplendour that lies within them, we can come if one knows how to be aware of make them understand the sea of pranic shakti around usreality which makes them exist,...But until we thus become aware of itgives them being, we have to possess a ...necessary a faiththen they too enter the total harmony, śraddhā, in and the power of physical disorder which causes the mind to lay its will on the state and action illness vanishes as do all other disorders of the body, such as those have who heal disease by faith, will or mental actionbeing...<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2409/the13-powerfebruary-of-the-instruments1957#p7p9,p10,p11</ref>

The exercises It is quite obvious that one of Pranayama are the familiar mechanical most powerful means of freeing and getting control of for acting on the pranic energybody is faith...The pranic Shakti can be directed People who have a simple heart, not only upon ourselvesa very complicated mind—simple people, you see—who don't have a very great, very complicated mental development but effectively towards others or on things or happenings for whatever purposes the will dictateshave a very deep faith, have a great power of action over their bodies, very great. Its effectivity That is why one is immensequite surprised at times: "Here's a man with a great realisation,.. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/an exceptional person, and he is a slave of all the-divine-shakti#p6</ref>smallest physical things, while this man, well, he is so simple and looks so uncouth, but he has a great faith and goes through difficulties and obstacles like a conqueror!"

==Having Faith== If people had an absolute I don't say that a highly cultured man can't have faith, but it is more difficult, for there is always this mental element which contradicts, discusses, tries to understand, which is difficult to convince, which wants proofs. His faith is less pure. It is necessary, then, to pass on to a higher degree in the healing power evolutionary spiral, pass from the mental to the spiritual; then, naturally, faith takes on a quality of the Gracea very high order. But I mean that in daily life, ordinary life, perhaps they would spare themselves quite a few diseasesvery simple man who has a very ardent faith can have a mastery over his body—without it being truly a "mastery"; it is simply a spontaneous movement—a control over his body far greater than somebody who has reached a much higher development.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1109/march19-14june-19701957#p12p20,p21</ref>

There are sadhus...it must be an integral faith and it must be absolute. And it must be of the right kind, not merely they live in a force of mental thought or will, but something more and deepertruly dirty condition—and they are free from all illness. The will put forth by the mind sets up opposite reactions and creates a resistanceProbably because they have faith...Mental faith is they do not sufficient; it must be completed and enforced by a vital and even a physical faith, a faith think of the their body...you must reach down to the most subconscious, you must fix the faith in they think of the very cells life of the body.their soul.They have no illness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0305/522-mayjuly-19291953#p18p24</ref>

There are sadhus...they live in a truly dirty condition—and they are free from all illness. Probably because they have faithYoga...they do not think of their body, they think faith and right auto-suggestion are of great use until the life of their soul. They have point comes when no illness..suggestion is necessary because the Truth-consciousness acts automatically and produces its natural results. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0531/22illness-julyand-1953health#p24p39</ref>

Those who are radiant...they may it must be radiant without an integral faith and it being a spiritual radiancemust be absolute...those who carry in themselves And it must be of the joy right kind, not merely a force of livingmental thought or will, these are in harmony with Nature but something more and, being in harmony with Nature, generally avoid accidents, they are immune from diseases deeper. The will put forth by the mind sets up opposite reactions and their life develops pleasantly as far as it is possible in the world as it iscreates a resistance... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/27-january-1954#p8</ref> ==Being Receptive to the Divine Force== What has to be done with the body at first Mental faith is to make not sufficient; it open to the Force, so as to receive strength against illness and fatigue—when they come, there must be the power to react completed and throw them off enforced by a vital and to keep even a physical faith, a constant flow faith of force into the body. If that is done..you must reach down to the most subconscious, you must fix the faith in the rest very cells of the bodily change can wait for its proper timebody.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2803/transformation5-andmay-the-body1929#p2p18</ref>

Try Most men are not conscious of this pranic force in the body or cannot distinguish it from the more physical form of energy which it informs and uses for its vehicle. But as the consciousness becomes more subtle by practice of Yoga, we can come to keep yourself open be aware of the sea of pranic shakti around us, feel it with the mental consciousness, concretely with a mental sense, see its courses and movements, and direct and act upon it immediately by the will. But until we thus become aware of it, we have to possess a working or at least an experimental faith in its presence and in the power of the will to our Force develop a greater command and use of this prana force. There is necessary a faith, ''śraddhā'', in the power of the mind to lay its will on the state and action of the body, that such as those have who heal disease by faith, will or mental action; but we must seek this control not only for this or any other limited use, but generally as a legitimate power of the inner and greater over the outer and lesser instrument. This faith is combated by our past habits of mind, by our actual normal experience of its comparative helplessness in our present imperfect system and by an opposing belief in the main thing.body and physical consciousness.For they too have a limiting ''śraddhā'' of their own which opposes the idea in the mind when it seeks to impose on the system the law of a higher yet unattained perfection. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3124/doctorsthe-power-of-andthe-medicinesinstruments#p8p7</ref>

<center>~</center> ...he[one] must believe firmly that it[illness] must and will go. If he[one] can keep this attitude and open ==By Being Receptive to the true force, the mind and nervous being once strengthened, the illness and weakness will disappear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p65</ref> <center>~</center>Divine Force==

...What has to be done with the experience that the Divine ALONE body at first is acting in to make it open to the bodyForce, that He has BECOME the bodyso as to receive strength against illness and fatigue—when they come, yet all there must be the while retaining his character of divine omniscience power to react and throw them off and omnipotence...it was[is] absolutely impossible to have the LEAST disorder in the body, and not only in keep a constant flow of force into the body, but IN ALL THE SURROUNDING MATTER...There was[is] a divine harmony in EVERYTHING...So if If that[this] is established in a permanent waydone,...There the rest of the bodily change can no longer be accidents, ...illness,... disorders, and everything should harmonize..wait for its proper time. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0128/junetransformation-6and-the-1958body#p10p2</ref>

When As the physical disorder comes, one must not be afraid; one must...face body consciousness becomes more open to the Force (it with courage, calmness, confidence, with is always the certitude that illness is a falsehood most difficult and that if one turns the last to open up entirely), in full confidence, with a complete quietude to the divine Grace, It will settle in these cells as It is established in the depths this frequent stress of the being, and the cells themselves illness will share in the eternal Truth diminish and Delightdisappear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0931/13illness-februaryand-1957health#p12p56</ref>

As the body consciousness becomes more open to the Force (To whatever cause an illness may be due, material or mental, external or internal, it is always the most difficult and the last to open up entirely), this[the] frequent stress of illness will diminish and disappear.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p56</ref> ==Strengthening the Nervous Envelope== ...illness ...must, before it can affect the physical body, touch another layer of the beingthat surrounds and protects it...This subtler layer is called...the in different teachings by various names,—the etheric body, the nervous envelope. It is a subtle body and yet almost visible...In density something like the vibrations that you see around a very hot and steaming object, it emanates from the physical body and closely covers it. All communications with the exterior world are made through this medium, and it is this that must be invaded and penetrated first before the body can be affected. If this envelope is absolutely strong and intact, you can... go into places infested with the worst of diseases, even plague and cholera, and remain quite immune. It is a perfect protection against all possible attacks of illness, so long as it is whole and entire, thoroughly consistent in its composition, its elements in faultless balance.This body is built up, on the one side, of a material basis, but rather of material conditions than of physical matter, on the other, of the vibrations of our psychological states.Peace and equanimity and confidence, faith in health, undisturbed repose and cheerfulness and bright gladness constitute this element in it and give it strength and substance.It is a very sensitive medium...with facile and quick reactions; it readily takes in all kinds of suggestions and these can rapidly change and almost remould its condition. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#</ref>

If one is conscious can feel them [attacks of illness] so coming and get the strength and the habit to throw them away before they can enter the subtle body or with the subtle consciousness, then one can stop an remain free from illness on . Even when the attack seems to rise from within, that means only that it has not been detected before it entered the subconscient; once in the subconscient, the force that brought it rouses it from there sooner or later and it invades the system. When you feel it just after it has entered, it is because though it came direct and not through the subconscient, yet you could not detect it while it was still outside. Very often it arrives like that, frontally or more often tangentially from the side, direct, forcing its way and prevent through the subtle vital envelope which is our main armour of defence, but it can be stopped there in the envelope itself before it from entering penetrates the physical material body.Then one may feel some effect, e.g. feverishness or a tendency to cold, but there is not the full invasion of the malady. If it can be stopped earlier or if the vital envelope of itself resists and remains strong, vigorous and intact, then there is no illness; the attack produces no physical effect and leaves no traces. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p52p15</ref>

The nervous (vital-...we can feel the symptoms of illness, fever or cold for instance, in the subtle physical) being supports sheath before they are manifest in the body—if it is calm gross body and strong and soliddestroy them there, then preventing them from manifesting in the body is well supported . Take now the call for the Divine Power, Light, Ananda. If we live only in the outward physical consciousness, it may descend and work behind the veil but we shall feel nothing and can withstand illness only see certain results after a long time. Or at most we feel a certain clarity and weakness orpeace in the mind, if illness comesa joy in the vital, it will bear a happy state in the physical and more easily get rid infer the touch of itthe Divine. If But if we are awake in the inward physical, we shall feel the light, power or Ananda flowing through the body, the limbs, nerves, blood, breath and, through the nervous being is weaksubtle body, then it is affecting the most material cells and making them conscious and blissful and we shall sense directly the opposite..Divine Power and Presence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3128/illnessthe-andphysical-healthconsciousness#p49p12 </ref>

...if we develop You must not accept but reject it [suggestions] with your physical mind and so help the inward physical body consciousness, we become aware of a subtle environmental physical atmosphere and can feel to throw off the forces of illness coming towards us through itsuggestion. If necessary, feel them even at make a distance andcounter-suggestion, if we have learned how to do it"No, we can stop them by the will or otherwise... <ref>http://incarnatewordI shall be well; I am and shall be all right." And in any case call in/cwsa/28/the-physical-consciousness#p12 </ref> ==Rejecting Mother's Force to throw out the suggestion and the Suggestion of Illness== The body should reject illness as energetically as we reject falsehood in the mindit is bringing. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1531/willillness-to-conquerand-illnesshealth#p10p22</ref>

All illness should be rejected Oh, how interesting it is, if you knew how interesting.... Take coughing, for instance (not in the chest, in the throat). So, the first vibration: an irritation that draws your attention in order to make you cough. It has a certain kind of vibration which we may call "pointed," but it's not violent: it's light, annoying. It's the first little vibration. So with that vibration: awakening of the attention in the surrounding consciousness (of the throat cells); then a refusal to accept the cough, a rejection here (in the throat), which at first almost causes nausea (all this is seen through a microscope, you understand, they are very tiny things). The attention is focused. Then, at that point, there are several possible factors, which are sometimes simultaneous and sometimes one drives away the other; one is anxiety: something goes wrong and all suggestions of illnessthere is apprehension at what's going to happen; the Force other is a will that nothing should be called in to cure disturbed by the assent to health irritation; and the refusal then all of assent to a sudden, the suggestions faith that bring or prolong its oppositethe Force is capable of restoring order everywhere immediately (none of this is intellectual: it's vibrations). <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3108/illnessfebruary-and8-health1967#p4p8</ref>

...if the vital mind withdraws its consent, refuses to be dominated by the habitual suggestions and the habitual movements, these recurrences of depression and despair can be made soon to cease. But it is not easy for this mind, once it has got into the worst habit of all illnesses consent, even a quite passive and we must reject it with as much energy as we use suffering and reluctant consent, to cancel the habit and get rid of a diseasethe black circle. It can be done easily only when the mind refuses any longer to believe in the suggestions or accept the ideas or feelings that start the circle.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1430/depressionthe-emergence-or-coming-forward-of-the-psychic#p10p45</ref>

It can Illness must not be done easily only when accepted as a means of transformation; it rather indicates certain difficulties encountered by the mind refuses any longer force of transformation especially in the vital and the body. But it is not necessary that these difficulties should be allowed to believe take this obscure form of illness. All illness should be rejected and all suggestions of illness; the Force should be called in to cure by the assent to health and the refusal of assent to the suggestions that bring or accept the ideas or feelings that start the circleprolong its opposite. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3031/theillness-emergence-or-coming-forward-of-theand-psychichealth#p45p4</ref>

By suggestion [...the body consciousness through old habit of consciousness admits the force of illness] I do not mean merely thoughts and goes through the experiences which are associated with it—e.g. congestion of phlegm in the chest and feeling of suffocation or wordsdifficulty of breathing etc. When the hypnotist says, "Sleep", it is To get rid of that one must awaken a suggestion; but when he says nothing but only puts his silent will to convey sleep or makes movements of his hands over and consciousness in the face, body itself that also is a suggestionrefuses to allow these things to impose themselves upon it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p23p54</ref>

Wake up in yourself a will to conquer...your belief Not a mere will in the mind but a will in the sanitary precautions very cells of your body. Without that you can't do anything; you may take helps them a hundred medicines but they won't cure you unless you have a will to work. For your thought is, "Now I am disinfected and safe", and to that extent it makes you safeovercome the physical illness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0315/19will-mayto-conquer-1929illness#p16p1</ref>

It The idea is always better not put into the heart or the life as a force to saybe accepted and worked out; the heart and life become conscious of the idea and respond to its dynamisms and their substance begins to modify itself in that sense, so that the feelings and actions become the vibrations of this higher wisdom, are informed with it, filled with the emotion and the sense of it: the will and the life impulses are similarly charged with its power and its urge of self-effectuation; even in the body the idea works so that, for example, "I the potent thought and will now have no more of health replaces its faith in illness and its consent to illness", it attracts or the idea of strength calls in the attention substance, power, motion, vibration of these malevolent powers strength; the idea generates the force and they immediately want form proper to prove the idea and imposes it on our substance of mind, life or matter. It is in this way that they can still disturb the body. Simply when they comefirst working proceeds; it charges the whole being with a new and superior consciousness, lays a foundation of change, reject themprepares it for a superior truth of existence.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3122/illnessthe-ascent-andtowards-healthsupermind#p48p23</ref>

...you get a queer sick feeling inside, a cold in the back, a little uneasinessfirst objects of the Pranayama are to purify the nervous system,...as though to circulate the general harmony had been disturbed. Then you must concentrate life-energy through all the more nerves without obstruction, disorder or irregularity, and with to acquire a great strength complete control of its functionings, so that the mind and will keep of the soul inhabiting the body may be no longer subject to the faith that nothing can do you harm, nothing can touch youbody or life or their combined limitations. This suffices, you can throw off The power of these exercises of breathing to bring about a purified and unobstructed state of the illness at that momentnervous system is a known and well-established fact of our physiology. But you must do this immediately ...you must It helps also to clear the physical system, but is not wait five minutes, it must be done entirely effective at once.first on all its canals and openings; therefore the Hathayogin uses supplementary physical methods for clearing them out regularly of all their accumulations.The combination of these with Asana,—particular Asanas have even an effect in destroying particular diseases,—and with Pranayama maintains perfectly the health of the body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0423/31-march-1951hathayoga#p22p10</ref>

The exercises of Pranayama are the familiar mechanical means of freeing and getting control of the pranic energy...if They heighten too and set free the vital mind withdraws its consentpsychic, refuses to be dominated by the habitual suggestions mental and spiritual energies which ordinarily depend for their opportunity of action on the habitual movements, these[pranic force. But the] recurrences of depression and despair same thing can be made soon done by mental will and practice or by an increasing opening of ourselves to ceasea higher spiritual power of the Shakti...It The pranic Shakti can be done easily directed not only when the mind refuses any longer to believe in the suggestions upon ourselves, but effectively towards others or accept the ideas on things or feelings that start happenings for whatever purposes the circlewill dictates. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3024/the-emergence-or-comingdivine-forward-of-the-psychicshakti#p45p6</ref>

<center>~</center> These auto-suggestions [of being restored =How to good health]—it is really faith in a mental form—act both on the subliminal and the subconscient. In the subliminal they set in action the powers of the inner being, ...in the subconscient they silence or block the suggestions of death and illness… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p37</ref> ==Having Will of Health=Deal with Illness?=

When the action is directly upon the body, that is, on the affected part, it is possible that one is relieved; then, some hours later or even after a few days, the illness returns.This means that the cause has not been changed, that the cause is in the vital and is still there; it is only the effect which has been cured..But if one can act simultaneously upon both the potent thought cause and will of health replaces its faith in illness the effect, and its the cause is sufficiently receptive to consent to illness..change, then one is completely cured, once for all.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2204/the-ascent31-towardsmarch-supermind1951#p23p13</ref>

There is something there that expects the illness, accepts it when it comes and gives it free play...whenever I had an He must learn to keep calm and quiet in the mind and vital being, to refuse to regard the illness...I had a trustand the tendency to it in the body as something normal to it, regarding it rather as something imposed from outside, a complete assurance and he must believe firmly that it had no realitymust and will go....every time a blow cameIf he can keep this attitude and open to the true force, I would tell my bodythe mind and nervous being once strengthened, "But what's the use of being ill since you'll just have to get well!" ...And it faded away only little by little..illness and weakness will disappear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0531/octoberillness-10and-1964health#p40p65</ref>

''Q:When I am sympathetic with a sick person my body begins to feel the symptoms of his disease came back''A:The best way is to call for the Divine Presence of Truth and Harmony, I said to myself, 'Very well, this means it must be dealt with in a new wayreplace the vibrations of disorder and confusion.' <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0215/march-7-1961general#p10p28</ref>

It To heal [''illness''] by the descent 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>There are always germs watching and only waiting for an occasion. That is why one should be very careful. Anyhow, for some reason or other, the influence has pierced through the higher consciousness into shell of protection and acts there encouraging the most physical]illness to become as bad as it can be.In that case the first means is not quite sufficient.Then you have to add something; you must add the Force of spiritual purification which is such an absolutely perfectly constructive force that nothing that's in the least destructive can survive there.becomes more possible If you have this Force at your disposal or if you can ask for it and get it, you direct it on the spot and the adverse force usually runs away immediately, for if it happens to control be in the functionings midst of this Force it gets dissolved, it disappears; for no force of the body disintegration can survive within this Force; therefore disintegration disappears and set right anything with it that also disappears. It can be changed into a constructive force, that is wrongpossible, or it may be simply dissolved and reduced to deal nothing. And with that not only is the illness cured, but all possibility of its return is also eliminated. You are cured of the illness and pain etconce for all, it never comes back. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3005/descent-and-the22-lowerjuly-nature1953#p26p60</ref>

Once For certain things, I remember, when there are certain disorders, something wrong (and with the perception of a consciousness that has become very sharp, you can see when that disorder is the natural origin of an illness has got in, it [for example, or of something very serious), with the call, the body] can fight concentration and overcome itthe response ...[the disorder is dissolved].But this implies only It's almost a defensive powersurrender, because it's an uncalculating self-giving: the power damaged spot opens to react against the Influence, not with an invading enemy—it idea of getting cured, but like this (''gesture like a flower opening out''), simply like this, unconditionally—that is not true freedomthe most potent gesture. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0108/octoberdecember-1720-19571967#p3p25</ref>

But sick peopleThe 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 is a sign of the cause of the ailment. It reveals too the nature of the resistance that prevents the whole being from advancing at the same high speed.It indicates the treatment and the cure. when I tell themIf one could perfectly understand where the mistake is, "Be sincerefind out what has been unreceptive," I know what I mean: if they REALLY want open that part and put the force and the Divinelight there, all it would be possible to re-establish in a moment the harmony that must stop. That's all..has been disturbed and the illness would immediately go. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0603/may16-8june-19651929#p41p8</ref>

...We are ALWAYS off balance, the method body is to change the subconscient into the conscient—if each thing that rises to the surface becomes consciousalways off balance (more or less), at that moment and it must be changed. There is something else, above, a Will or a more direct method still: Consciousness, that holds it up and makes it work. So if we can call on that Will—that Will for Harmony—and if we can have the Flame within, that Flame of aspiration, and make contact, we emerge from so-called illness, which is to unreal, an unreal and false sensation and just one way of being of the general Disorder, and we enter the subconscient in one's full consciousness into Harmony, and work there..then everything is fine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0706/11july-may10-19551965#p7p6</ref>

...when there is an illness ...automatically It [''the descent of the higher consciousness into the most physical''] brings light, consciousness, force, Ananda into the cells forget and all the physical movements...their sadhana The body becomes conscious and vigilant and everythingperforms the right movements, and obeying the higher will or else automatically by force of the consciousness that has come into it is only slowly when you get out . It becomes more possible to control the functionings of the body and set right anything that is wrong, to deal with illness that and pain etc. A greater control comes over the actions of the cells begin body and even over happenings to rememberit from outside, e.g.minimising of accidents and small mishaps.my ambition was that the cells should remember when being ill.The body becomes a more effective instrument for work.It becomes possible to minimise fatigue.The first time that the cells rememberedPeace, ohhappiness, I was very happy. But nowstrength,lightness in the whole physical system...as soon These are the more obvious and normal results which grow as the disorder comesconsciousness grows, the cells first...got a little anxious: "Oh, we but there are so bad many others 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 eagernesspossible. And now there There is an intense joy and a kind of power; a power that comesalso the unity with the earth-consciousness, a power the constant sense of aspiration and a power of realization that comes with the sense: "We are winning a victoryDivine in the physical, we are winning a new victory...etc."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0630/julydescent-and-the-7lower-1965nature#p1p26</ref>

...one must be neither cowardly nor fearful. When the physical disorder comes, one must not be afraid; one must not run away from it, must face it with courage, calmness, confidence, with the last stage certitude that illness is a ''falsehood'' and that if one turns entirely, in full confidence, with a complete quietude to the body should forget it has been ill; that's very importantdivine Grace, It will settle in these cells as It is established in the depths of the being, and the cells themselves will share in the eternal Truth and Delight.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0509/october13-10february-19641957#p27p12</ref>

You must put 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. But it is a fact that one can catch anything through fear, even invite an accident. And, you see,from a strong will for getting rid certain point of your illness and you must remain quiet and unperturbed by view everything is contagious. I knew a person who got a wound through the resultskind of fear that he felt seeing someone else's wound. The two are not contradictoryHe really got it. One should accompany the other… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1505/will-to22-conquerjuly-illness1953#p6p10</ref>

There have been numerous cases of a panic being stopped outright simply because some people refused the suggestion and could counteract it with an opposite suggestion.For mystics the best cure as soon as one begins to feel afraid of something 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.That is the cure for the mystic.a positive silence, which It is at the same time easiest of all. But everybody does not enjoy the grace of being a complete immobility—that's very good as an antidote to disorder..mystic. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0405/august14-7october-19631953#p27p36</ref>

...the most difficult Some people are spontaneously free from fear even in their body; they have a sufficient vital equilibrium in them not to be afraid, not to fear, and a natural harmony in the yogic point rhythm of view is toothachetheir physical life which enables them to reduce the illness spontaneously to a minimum. There are others, on the other hand, because with whom the thing always becomes as bad as it is very close can be, sometimes to the brain…point of catastrophe.Usually in a tooth it There is the nerve which has been attacked by the carieswhole range and this can be seen quite easily. Well, this depends on a kind of happy rhythm of the diseasemovement of life in them, and which begins is either harmonious enough to protest with all its strength. Soresist external attacks of illness or else doesn't exist or is not sufficiently powerful, and is replaced by that trembling of fear, if you succeed in establishingthat kind of instinctive anguish which transforms the least unpleasant contact into something painful and harmful...immobilityThere is the whole range, you prevent it from vibrating, you prevent it from protesting… if you do it fairly constantly, with sufficient perseverance, someone who can go through the sick nerve will die worst contagion and you will not suffer epidemics without ever catching anything to one who falls ill at all any morethe slightest chance. Because So naturally it was that which was suffering always depends on the constitution of each person; and as soon as one wants to make an effort for progress, it naturally depends on the control one has acquired over oneself, until the moment when the body becomes the docile instrument of the higher Will and one can obtain from it is dead it does not suffer any longer. Try..a normal resistance to all attacks. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0609/1719-novemberjune-19541957#p23p7</ref>

...It is true that doctors have said that if one can teach the body to bear pain, it becomes more and more resilient and less easily disrupted—this is possible even to turn a concrete result. In the pains case of illness like any other pain into people who know how to avoid getting completely upset as soon as they have a form of pleasure; for pain and pleasure somewhere, who are both of them degradations of an original Ananda able to bear it quietly, to keep their balance, it seems that the body's capacity to bear the disorder without going to pieces increases. This is a great achievement. I have asked myself this question from the purely practical, external standpoint and can it seems to be reduced into like this. Inwardly, I have been told this many times—told and shown by small experiences—that the terms of each other body can bear much more than we think, if no fear or else sublimated into their original principle of Ananda… <ref>http://incarnatewordanxiety 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.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p58</ref>

[Based on Aphorism<center93>~</center> Suppose that as a result of some illness or other, there Pain is some sort the touch of pain at a precise spot...First point: do not stress the pain...Second point... draw the peace into yourself our Mother teaching us how to hear and bring it down into the solar plexusgrow in rapture...and from there direct it very calmly...persistentlyShe has tree stages of her schooling, towards the place where the pain is...endurance first, and fix it there...This is not always enough...But if by widening this movement you can add a sort next equality 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 Gracesoul, then I am sure..last ecstasy.your suffering will disappear… ] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0810/4-julyaphorism-195693#p21p3</ref>

These [There] are phenomena But you mustn't be afraid. Neither afraid of falling ill, nor of self-identification. Onlybecoming imbecile, they are involuntarynor even... When someone cannot sleep ...his nerves are ill of dying—you must be like this ("vast and weakened by excessive agitationquiet gesture, he is told like the sea"). If we could only have (I have it from time to sit in front time, it comes: it's on its way) a feeling of an aquariumsmiling trust... and look at But to get that the consciousness must be as vast as the fishcreation itself. So he looks at You are as vast as the fish, moving aroundcreation, coming and going, totally trusting....After Ultimately, it always boils down to this (which can be put in a while he lives the life of fishesvery childlike manner): he comes and goes, swims, glides, playsHe knows better than we what has to be done. And at the end of the hour his nerves are in a perfect state and he is completely restful! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0513/12may-august17-19531972#p18p40</ref>

==Calling in the Divine ForceBy Detachment==

Most The physical mind...makes use of them [illnesses] can be got rid of almost at once by faith and calling in the force. Those nervous substance; if we withdraw it from the nervous substance, we no longer feel anything, for that are chronic are more difficult, but they too can be got rid 's what gives us the perception of by the same means if persistently usedsensation... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p44</ref> <center>~</center>We know something is wrong, but we no longer suffer from it…

...with this kind of indifferent detachment is the call, ESSENTIAL condition for the concentration and establishment of true Harmony in the response ... [the disorder is dissolved]. It's almost a surrendermost material Matter—the most external,physical Matter... 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/0802/decemberjanuary-2031-19671961#p25p14</ref>

''Q:When I am sympathetic with This detachment of the mind must be strengthened by a sick person my body begins certain attitude of indifference to feel the symptoms things of his disease.the body; we must not care essentially about its sleep or its waking, its movement or its rest, its pain or its pleasure, its health or ill-health, its vigour or its fatigue, its comfort or its discomfort, or what it eats or drinks.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.'' A:The best way is But we have not either to call for be affected in mind by hunger or thirst or discomfort or ill-health or attach the importance which the Divine Presence of Truth physical and Harmony, vital man attaches to replace the vibrations things of disorder and confusionthe body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1523/generalthe-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p28p2</ref>

...if you have a pain somewhere... One step towards it corresponds [illness] is to something within,... get the contact with inner consciousness separate from the true Force puts things back body—to feel that it is not you who are ill but it is only something taking place in orderthe 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/agendacwsa/1131/marchillness-28and-1970health#p23p54</ref>

The pains in ...all those physical disorders of the body come from , those disorders in the same source as functioning or even organic disorders, suddenly (naturally, the trouble in constant state is one of aspiration: an intense, continuous, conscious aspiration) and suddenly—suddenly—an almost stupefying Response: all disorder disappears, not only inside but around (around, sometimes over a rather vast extent), and everything becomes automatically organized, harmonized, without the vital nature; least effort, and it starts... Remain always quiet moving within an extraordinary progressive harmony; then, with no apparent reason, without anything having changed in the consciousness and persist in opening yourselfany outer circumstances making a difference, pfft! it reverts to what it was before: disorder, conflict, chaos, things that grate. The Force that releases And then, as you from aren't conscious of the vital troublewhy, can also remove you don't have the disturbance in key!......the nervous part only recourse is a blissful surrender (''gesture of immobile offering Upward'').. and not a heavy, not an inert surrender: intense, intense! ...That's the physical body… only thing. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3106/illnessmarch-and20-health1965#p93p34,p37</ref>

The ...congenital diseases can be cured only thing I can suggest about diseases is to call down peace. Keep the mind away from by an integral transformation of the body by whatever means... It is itself and we have not reached yet that period in this state that the Grace acts. And 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 alone that cures... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/peacecure-andby-quietthe-faith-anddivine-surrendergrace#p10p13</ref>

...one used theMedicines are a ''pis aller'' [uses the minda course of action followed as a last resort]... that have to make favourable formations—... to give confidence be used when something in the consciousness does not respond or responds superficially to the body, to tell Force. Very often it is some part of the material consciousness that is unreceptive—at other times it is just a passing disturbance the subconscient which stands in the way even when the whole waking mind, life, physical consent to the liberating influence...and if it enters If the subconscient also answers, then even a real state slight touch of receptivity, the disorder will disappear as easily as it has come, and one Force can not only cure oneself in a few seconds—if one knows how to do the particular illness but make that, one gets wonderful results. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/23-december-1953#p36</ref> ==Overcoming Fear== Not be afraid form or kind of falling ill! That's whatillness practically impossible hereafter. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0731/octoberdoctors-22and-1966medicines#p4p6</ref>

A strict discipline is needed ''Mother, how are medicines to cure the be used for a body of fear. The cells themselves tremble. It which is only by disciplinenot altogether unconscious? For even when we draw on the divine grace, by yoga we see that one can overcome we need a little medicine, and if a little medicine is given it has a good effect. Does this fear... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p10</ref>mean that only the body needs medicine or is there something wrong with the mind and the vital?''

In almost every case, there are things which help—a little—provided it is done within reasonable limits.If it is no longer within reasonable limits, you are sure to break down completely.You cure one thing but catch another which is usually worse.as soon as one begins But still, a little help, in a way, a little something that gives confidence to feel afraid of something [one] your body: "Now it will be all right, now that I have taken this, it is going to think of the Divine be all right"—this helps it a great deal and then snuggle in his arms or at his feet it decides to get better and leave him entirely responsible for everything that happens, within, outside, everywhere—and immediately the fear disappears... <ref>http://incarnatewordit is cured.in/cwm/05/14-october-1953#p36</ref>

...If one can cure by the body can bear much more than we thinkForce as you have often done, it is the best—but if no fear or anxiety for some reason the body is added not able to respond to the painForce (e. If we eliminate g. owing to doubt, lassitude or discouragement or for inability to react against the mental factordisease), then the aid of medical treatment becomes necessary. It is not that the body, left Force ceases to act and leaves all to itselfthe medicines, has neither fear nor apprehension nor anxiety about what is going —it will continue to happen—no anguish—and it can bear a great deal.  [Based on Aphorism 93 - Pain is act through the consciousness but take the touch support of our Mother teaching us how the treatment so as to hear and grow act directly on the resistance in rapture. She has tree stages of her schoolingthe body, endurance first, next equality of soul, last ecstasywhich responds more readily to physical means in its ordinary consciousness.] <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1009/aphorism19-93june-1957#p3p9,p10,p11,p12</ref>

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 Medicine is necessary to overcome it, for our bodies in disease only because our bodies have learned the cells of the body are afraid of everything that is unpleasant, painful,...the cells art of the body[they] become anxious, they don't like to be uncomfortablenot getting well without medicines. And thenEven so, to overcome one sees often that, the control of a conscious will moment Nature chooses for recovery is necessary...It is this kind of trembling of material, physical fear that in which the cells of life is abandoned as hopeless by the body which aggravates all illnessesdoctors. [Aphorism<404>]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0910/19aphorism-404-405-june406-1957407#p6p1</ref>

But you mustn't be afraid. Neither afraid of falling illDrugs often cure the body when they do not merely trouble or poison it, nor but only if their physical attack on the disease is supported by the force of becoming imbecile, nor even... of dying—you must the spirit; if that force can be like this (vast and quiet gesturemade to work freely, like the sea)drugs are superfluous. [Aphorism<407>] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1310/mayaphorism-404-405-17406-1972407#p40p4</ref>

==Practicing Indifferent DetachmentRole of Supramental Descent==

The physical mind...makes use of the nervous substance; if we withdraw it from the nervous substance, we no longer feel anything, supramental descent is necessary for that's what gives us the perception of sensation....We know something is wrong, but we no longer suffer from it...this kind a dynamic action of indifferent detachment is the ESSENTIAL condition for the establishment of true Harmony Truth in the most material Matter—the most externalmind, physical Matter vital and body. This is would imply as a final result the logical consequence... on disappearance of the cause unconsciousness of illnesses the body; it would no longer be subject to decay and how to overcome themdisease.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0228/januarytransformation-31and-1961the-body#p14p16</ref> <center>~</center> ...detachment of the mind must be strengthened by a certain attitude of indifference to the things of In its normal state, the body; we must always feels that it is not care essentially about its own master: illnesses invade it without its really being able to resist them—a thousand factors impose themselves or exert pressure upon it.Its sole power is the power to defend itself, to react..health or ill-healthOnce the illness has got in,...This does not mean it can fight and overcome it—even modern medicine has acknowledged that we shall not keep the body in right order so far as we canis cured only when it decides to get cured; we have it is not to fall into violent asceticisms or the drugs per se that heal, for if the ailment is temporarily suppressed by a positive neglect of drug without the body's will, it grows up again elsewhere in some other form until the physical frame. But we have not either body itself has decided to be affected in mind bycured...discomfort or ill-health or attach the importance which But this implies only a defensive power, the physical and vital man attaches power to the things of the body.react against an invading enemy—it is not true freedom.. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p2</ref> <center>~</center>

One step towards it[illness] is to get But with the inner consciousness separate from the body—to feel that it is not you who are ill but it is only supramental manifestation, something taking new has taken place in the body and not affecting your consciousness. It : it feels it is then possible to see this separate body consciousnessits own master, what it feelsautonomous, what are with its reactions to thingstwo feet solidly on the ground, how as it workswere. One can then act on it to change This gives a physical impression of the whole being suddenly drawing itself up, with its consciousness and reactionshead lifted high—I am my own master. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3101/illnessoctober-and17-health1957#p54p3,p4</ref>

Only, when one The absolute immunity can only come with the supramental change. For below the supramental it is not very much coddled, when one has the result of an action of a little endurance Force among many forces and decides within himself not to pay too much attentioncan be disturbed by a disruption of the equilibrium established—in the supramental it is a law of the nature; in a supramentalised body immunity from illness would be automatic, quite remarkably the pain diminishes… inherent in its new nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0631/17illness-novemberand-1954health#p21p52</ref>

Suppose that as a result of some illness or other, there is some sort of pain at a precise spot...At that moment all will depend, as I said at the knowledge of beginning, on the power approach most familiar to cut the connection between the suffering part and the recording brainyou. ...all this calls for But we can give an occult power or a trainingexample...without going so farYou are in pain, there is one thing that one can try to do: in great pain; it is not to concentrate on one's painhurting very much,you are suffering a lot...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>

So there are two things Second point: as I said, it depends on your habits. If you have know how to do when you have discovered the disorderconcentrate, big or small—the disharmony. ...the first thing to do is to quieten oneselfbe quiet, and if you can bring into yourself a certain peace, of any kind―it may be a mental peace, calmit may be a vital peace, it may be a psychic peace; they have different values and qualities, this is an individual question―you try to realise within yourself a state of peace or attempt to enter into a conscious contact with a force of peace... Afterwards . Suppose you see what is succeed more or less completely. Then, if you can draw the peace into yourself and bring it down into the cause solar plexus―for we are not talking of inner states but of your physical body―and from there direct it very calmly, very slowly I might say, but very persistently, towards the disorder...and through place where the pressure of light pain is more or less sharp, and knowledge and spiritual force you re-establish the harmony...if fix it does not offer any obstinate resistancethere, you can be cured in a few seconds. <ref>http://incarnatewordthis is very good.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p58</ref>

One must be conscious, conscious But if by widening this movement you can add a sort of the working of one's organsmental formation with a little life in it―not just cold,...When they begin indulging but with a little life in unhealthy fancies...you must tell them: no, it it―that the only reality is not like that the work is to be donedivine Reality, it is and all the other way! Suppose for example, your heart begins to throb madly; then you must make it calm, you tell it that cells of this body are a more or less deformed expression of this divine Reality―there is not only one Reality, the way to behaveDivine, and at the same time (solely to help it) you take in longour body is a more or less deformed expression of this sole Reality―if by my aspiration, very regular rhythmic breaths, that ismy concentration, I can bring into the cells of the lung becomes body the mentor consciousness of the heart and teaches it how to work properly..this sole Reality, all disorder must necessarily cease. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p36</ref>

If you can add to that a movement of complete and trusting surrender to the Grace, then I am sure that within five minutes your suffering will disappear. If you know how to do it.You may try and yet not succeed. But you must know how to try again and again and again, until you do succeed. But if you do those three things at the same time, well, there is no pain which can resist. <centerref>~https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/4-july-1956#p21,p22,p23,p24,p25,p26,p27,p28</centerref>

The particular place There's a power in the sound itself, and by forcing the body affected by an illness is an index to repeat the sound, you force it to receive the nature of vibration at the inner disharmony same time. But I've noticed that has taken place. It points to if something in the originbody's working gets disturbed (a pain or disorder,... It indicates the treatment onset of some illness) and I repeat my mantra in a certain way—still the same words, the cure. If one could... find out what has been unreceptivesame mantra, open that part but said with a certain purpose and put above all in a movement of surrender, surrender of the pain, the force disorder, and a call, like an opening—it has a marvelous effect. The mantra acts in just the light thereright way, it would be possible to re-establish in this way and in no other. And after a moment while everything is put back in order. And simultaneously, of course, the harmony that has been disturbed precise knowledge of what lies behind the disorder and what I must do to set it right comes to me. But quite apart from this, the illness would immediately gomantra acts directly upon the pain itself. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0301/16june-june4-19291960#p8p4</ref>

The only thing I can suggest about diseases is to call down peace. Keep the mind away from the body by whatever means—whether by reading Sri Aurobindo's books or meditation. It is in this state that the Grace acts. And it is the Grace alone that cures. The medicines only give a faith to the body. That is all. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/peace-and-quiet-faith-and-surrender#p10</ref>...the intervention knowledge of the Vibration power to cut the connection between the suffering part and the recording brain. One cuts the connection, then the brain does not register. That's what one does, what the doctors do with anaesthetics. They cut the connection of Harmony into the vibration nerves between the spot that's ill and the brain; so the brain no longer perceives anything or it is reduced to a minimum… there is one thing that one can try to do: it is not to concentrate on one's pain, to turn the attention away as much as possible, not think at all of Disorderone's pain, think as little as possible and above all not be concentrated on it, allowing [allows] Disorder not to ceasepay attention—"Oh, I'm in pain", then it becomes a little worse; "Oh, I'm in still greater pain", then it becomes still worse, like that, because one is concentrated on it; and this is the mistake one always makes: to think, be there, attentive, awaiting the sign of pain; then naturally it comes, it comes increased by the concentration of the attention given to it. That is why, when one is not well the best thing to do is to read or have something read, you see; it depends on the condition one is in. But if one can turn one's attention away, one no longer suffers. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/27-april-1955#p16</ref>When one has a very bad toothache (I don't know if you have a toothache sometimes or not; a toothache hurts terribly because the nerve is quite, quite close to the brain, so it doesn't lose its intensity on the way, it is very direct and hurts very much), the best way—in fact there's no other—the best way is to cut it: "It is good, you have done your work, you told me that something was wrong there, that's enough, don't move now." And one cuts, cuts it like this ("gesture"), cuts the connection, it doesn't transmit again. Naturally you must think of something else. If afterwards you start saying, "Do I still have the pain?..." <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0507/march11-25may-19641955#p34p44</ref>

...we think phenomena of self-identification. Only, they are involuntary. And this is also one of the body methods used today to cure nervous diseases. When someone cannot sleep, cannot be restful because he is too excited and nervous and his nerves are ill and weakened by excessive agitation, he is told to sit in good healthfront of an aquarium, for instance—an aquarium, that it's balancedvery lovely, and that "something is introduced from outsideisn't it?—before an aquarium with pretty little fish in it, which causes you goldfish; just to fall illsit there," but it's settle down in an easy-chair and try not to think of anything (particularly not like that! We are ALWAYS off balance, of his troubles) and look at the body is always off balance..fish. So he looks at the fish, moving around, coming and it is something elsegoing, swimming, gliding, turning, meeting, abovecrossing, a Will or a Consciousnesschasing one another indefinitely, that holds it up and makes it workalso the water flowing slowly and the passing fish. So if we can call on...that Will for Harmony—and if we can have ...that [After a while he lives the] Flame life of aspirationfishes: he comes and goes, swims, and make contactglides, we emerge from so-called illness… <ref>http://incarnatewordplays.And at the end of the hour his nerves are in/agenda/06/july-10-1965#p6</ref>a perfect state and he is completely restful! ==Restoring Order== ...if order But the condition is restored at the center that one must not think of disorderone's troubles, everything follows naturally, without your paying it any special attentionsimply watch the fish. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/05/september12-26august-19641953#p63p18,p19</ref>

That [The] intrusion I have known some truly extraordinary instances. If you can at the moment... Wait, take an example which is quite concrete: sunstroke. This upsets you considerably, it is one of Disorder the things which makes itself felt everywhereyou most ill—a sunstroke upsets everything, it disturbs the inner functions, it generally causes a congestion in the head and very high fever. So, if this has happened, if it has repercussions everywhere...succeeded in getting through the protection and entering you, well, if you can just go into a quiet place, stretch yourself out flat, go out of your body (naturally, you must learn this; there are people who do this spontaneously, for others a long discipline is necessary), go out of your body, remain above in a way to be able to bring to see the attacked spot body (you know the true Vibration—the Vibration phenomenon, seeing one's body when one is outside? This can be done at will, going out of Order one's body and Harmony—and remaining just above it), the body is stretched out on a bed, a bench, on the ground, anywhere; you stop are stretched just above it and from there, consciously, you pull the DisorderForce from above, and if you are used to doing it, if your aspiration is strong enough, you get the answer; and then, from there, taking care not to re-enter your body, you begin to push these forces into the body, like that, regularly, until you see the body receiving them (for, the first few moments they don't enter, because the body is quite upset by the illness, it is not receptive, it is curled up), you push them gently, gently, quietly, without nervousness, very peacefully, into the body.But you must not be disturbed by anyone.If someone comes along, sees you stretched out and shakes you, it is extremely dangerous. all You must do this in quiet conditions, ask people not to disturb you or better shut yourself up where they can't disturb you. But you can concentrate slowly (this takes more or less time—ten minutes, half an hour, one hour, two hours—depends upon the seriousness of the disorder which has set in), slowly, from above, you concentrate the Force 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. This has been done for a sunstroke, which is a fairly violent thing, and also for typhoid fever, and many other things are put back illnesses, as, for instance, for a liver which was suddenly upset somehow (not due to indigestion, but a liver which doesn't function properly for the moment); it may also be cured in orderthe same way. There was a case of cholera which was healed like that. The cholera had just been caught, had entered, as but was not yet lodged; it was completely cured. Consequently, when I say that if one masters the spiritual force and knows how to use it, there is no malady which cannot be cured… Of course, you will say you don't know how to go out of the body, draw the Force, concentrate it, have all this mastery.... It is not very frequent, but it is not impossible. And one can be sure that if automaticallyone is helped... In fact, there is a much easier method, it is to call for help. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0504/september31-26march-19641951#p57p23</ref>

If You thought for months perhaps or even for years, you thought you were completely rid of a certain kind of illness which you suffered from, and you organise everything—your feelingsno longer paid any attention, your thoughtsand suddenly one day it returns as though it had never gone; it springs up again from the subconscient and unless one enters into this subconscient and changes things there, your impulsesthat is, etcunless one changes the subconscient into the conscient,—around it always happens like this. And the psychic centre which method is to change the subconscient into the conscient—if each thing that rises to the inner lightsurface becomes conscious, you will see at that all inner disorder will change into moment it must be changed. There is a luminous ordermore direct method still: it is to enter the subconscient in one's full consciousness and work there, but this is difficult. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0407/1511-januarymay-19511955#p5p7</ref>

=== Auto Suggestions===The mind has a considerable power of formation and a direct action on the body, and usually one uses this power to make oneself ill. For as soon as the least thing goes wrong, the mind begins to shape and build all the catastrophes possible, to ask itself whether it could be this, whether it could be that, if it is going to be like that, and how it will all end. Well, if instead of letting the mind do this disastrous work, one used the same capacity to make favourable formations—simply, for example, to give confidence to the body, to tell it that it is just a passing disturbance and that it is nothing, 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. <centerref>~http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/23-december-1953#p36</centerref> These auto-suggestions [''of being restored to good health'']—it is really faith in a mental form—act both on the subliminal and the subconscient.In the subliminal they set in action the powers of the inner being, its occult power to make thought, will or simple conscious force effective on the body—in the subconscient they silence or block the suggestions of death and illness (expressed or unexpressed) that prevent the return of health.They help also to combat the same things (adverse suggestions) in the mind, vital, body consciousness.Where all this is completely done or with some completeness, the body itself awakening effects can be very remarkable. <ref>http://incarnateword.in its cells/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p37</ref>Of course it [''cancer''] can [''be cured by Yoga''], but on condition of faith or openness or both. Even a freedom mental suggestion can cure cancer—with luck, of course, as is shown by the cells themselvescase of the woman operated on unsuccessfully for cancer, an absolutely new vibration that sets disorders right—even disorders that existed prior to but the supramental manifestationdoctors lied and told her it had succeeded. Result, cancer symptoms all ceased and she died many years afterwards of another illness altogether. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0131/octoberspecific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-17physical-1957problems#p7p2</ref>

...One must be conscious, conscious of the habit working of disease can one's organs, aware of the one that does not behave very well, telling it immediately what is to bedone to set itself right.What is needed (I shall explain it to you later on) is to give them a lesson as one does to little children..minimised and gradually eliminated When they begin indulging in unhealthy fancies (indeed it is then the occasion to say it) 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 meantime lung becomes the power mentor of the mind heart and teaches it how to work properly. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p36</ref>It is particularly noticeable that all the digestive functions are extremely sensitive to an attitude that is critical, bitter, full of ill-will, to set right a sour judgment. Nothing disturbs the disorders functioning of the body whether digestion more than that. And it is a vicious circle: the more the digestive function is disturbed, the more unkind you become, critical, dissatisfied with life and things and people. So you can't find any way out. And there is only one cure: to deliberately drop this attitude, to absolutely forbid yourself to have it and to impose upon yourself, by conscious manipulation constant self-control, a deliberate attitude of vital force or by simple mental fiat all-comprehending kindness. Just try and you will immensely increase..see that you feel much better. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2303/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-bodybhikkhu#p5p25</ref>

Human beings don't know how to keep energy...someone who is ill and BELIEVES in the reality of his When something happens—an accident or an illness; the effect , for example—and they ask for help, a double or a triple dose of the Action energy is lessened in proportion sent. If they happen to his wrong belief.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/13/june-24-1972#p16</ref> ==Rejecting the Divine Force== I know casesbe receptive,they receive it... of people who are sickThis energy is given for two reasons: if they follow the routine to restore order out of the doctor and medicines and treatment and disease, they get well; if disorder caused by some mischance (!) they call on the Force and I apply it, the more I applyaccident or illness, the more terrified they are! They feel absolutely unexpected phenomena and they are terrified: "...What's happening to me!" As if it were absolutely catastrophic. The minute impart a transformative force to repair or change the Force comes and they feel just a bit source of it,... they resist... they become absolutely restless...That is, the whole system spends its time rejecting and rejecting all that comesillness or accident. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/november-28-1964#p12</ref> <center>~</center> ...But instead of using the energy in this way,[to restore and repair] they[humans] immediately throw it out. They start stirring about, reacting, working, speaking ...They feel full of energy and they throw it all out! They can't keep anything. So naturally, since the energy was not sent to be wasted like that but for an inner use, they feel absolutely flat, run down. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/july-21-1958#p2</ref> ==Unhealthy Curiosity== ...there And it is the sense of an established harmony among the cells,universal... And the slightest thing that comes and disturbs that harmony is VERY painfulThey don't know, but at the same time there is the knowledge of what they do not know how to do make this movement—to turn within, to reestablish use the harmony instantly;... But if out of curiosityenergy (not to keep it,...you start asking yourselfit doesn't keep), "What's that? What effect will to use it have? What's going to happen?" (what repair the damage done to the body calls "and to go deeply within to find the desire reason for this accident or illness, and there to learn")change it by an aspiration,an inner transformation...Instead of that [then] you'll have something very unpleasant ...While if you don't have , right away they start speaking, stirring about, reacting, doing this or that unhealthy curiosity ...bring one drop of the Lord on the troubled spot for everything to be fine again.! <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agenda/0401/july-2021-19631958#p39p1,p2</ref>

...but when you are able to be truly still, there is ALWAYS a little light—a warm little light, very bright and wonderfully still, behind; as if it were saying, "You only have to will." Then the body's cells panic: "Will, how? How can I? The illness is on me, I am overcome. How can I will? It's AN ILLNESS"—Then —the whole drama (and that wasn't in sleep: I was completely awake, it was this morning), it's "an illness." Then something with a general wisdom says, "Calm down..., calm down, (laughing) don't remain attached to your illness!Calm down.As if you wished to be ill! Calm down." So they consent—"consent," you know, like a child who has been scolded, "All right, very well, I'll try..." They try—immediately, that light comes again: "You only have to will." And once or twice, for one thing or another (because the Disorder is something general: you may suffer at any spot, have a disorder at any spot if you accept a certain vibration), on THIS POINT, you consent—the next minute, it's over..Not the next minute: a few seconds and it's over. Then the cells remember: "But how come? I had a pain here..."—pop! It all comes back. And the whole drama unfolds like that, constantly.

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 there is caught in the sense of an illnessestablished harmony among the cells, increasingly established among the cells, how should one pray to which represents the Mother?'' A:Cure meright functioning, O Mother! <ref>httpswhatever that may be://incarnatewordit's no longer a question of a stomach or a heart or this or that.in/cwm/15/cure-by-And the-divine-grace#p10</ref> <center>~</center> I don't want you to be ill slightest thing that comes and always I am with you disturbs that harmony is VERY painful, but at the same time there is the knowledge of what to cure you—but you too must want do to be cured. Do not torment yourself reestablish the harmony instantly; 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> <center>~</center> Ultimately to put it quite tritelyif the harmony is reestablished, one can cure only if the disease functioning isn't necessary to the individualaffected. But if out of curiosity, for instance (it's development.<ref>http://incarnateword.a mental illness in/agenda/10/december-13-1969#p14</ref> <center>~</center> If this present difficulty is useful ... (humans), you start asking yourself, "What's that? What effect will ithave? What's going to happen?" (what the body addressing calls "the Lorddesire to learn")..for Your Work—so , if you are unlucky enough to be that way, you can be it..It [The body] doesnsure ("laughing") that you't ask ll have something very unpleasant which, according to be cured of the doctor (according to ignoramuses), becomes an illness! It doesnor disrupts the body't ask, it is ready; 'All right,' it sayss functioning. While if you don'As long as I can keep goingt have that unhealthy curiosity and, I will keep going. As long as I can laston the contrary, I will last. But that's the harmony not what I'm asking for: I am asking to be cured disrupted, you only have to, we could say poetically, bring one drop of my stupidity.' I believe this is what...gives it the necessary enduranceLord on the troubled spot for everything to be fine again. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0204/februaryjuly-720-19611963#p24p39</ref> <center>~</center>

There are two ways of curing is no such thing as an incurable illness in reality—for what the doctors call such is only an illness spiritually. Onefor which they have not yet been able to discover a physical remedy.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p1</ref>But, each man can make his own experiment.If one has a bad throat, this may be due to the person is receptive; fact that the force day before one was in a state of consciousness depression. Or perhaps one is put upon very unhappy, dissatisfied, one finds everything very bad, and the next day one gets a cold in the affected part and its pressure restores orderhead.... Everyone must make his own observations. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p11p4</ref>

In other cases, Aphorism<199>Disease will always return to the body if the body lacks receptivity... one sees soul is flawed; for the sins of the mind are the inner correspondence with secret cause of the psychological state which has brought about sins of the illness body. So too poverty and acts trouble will always return on thatman in society, so long as the mind of the race is subjected to egoism. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0410/31aphorism-march199-1951200#p12p1</ref>

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> <center>~</center> ...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 people are divine in their essence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/12/october-16-1971#p6</ref> <center>~</center> ...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... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p25</ref> ==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> <center>~</center> ...if something in the body's working gets disturbed (a pain or disorder, the onset of some illness) and I repeat my mantra in a certain way—still the same words, the same mantra, but said with a certain purpose and above all in a movement of surrender, surrender of the pain, the disorder, and a call, like an opening—it has a marvelous effect. ...And after a while everything is put back in order. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/june-4-1960#p4</ref> <center>~</center> ...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 andget well quickly, 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 full of the cells' reaction, that's what makes it changegratitude; 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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p40</ref> ==Using the Divine Force== 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> <center>~</center> ...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> <center>~</center> When something happens—an accident or an illness,...do they ask for help, a double or a triple dose think of energy is sent. If they happen to be receptive, being grateful when 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> <center>~</center> ...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> <center>~</center> 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> <center>~</center> Medicine is necessary for our bodies in disease only because our bodies have learned the art of not getting well without medicines. [Based on Aphorism<404>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.]a much greater miracle! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1005/aphorism23-404december-405-406-407#p1</ref> <center>~</center> 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.[Aphorism<407>] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-404-405-406-407#p4</ref> ==Role of Supramental Descent== 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-body1953#p15p52</ref>

The absolute immunity can ...the experience that the Divine ALONE is acting in the body, that He has BECOME the body, yet all the while retaining his character of divine omniscience and omnipotence) well, the whole time it remained actively like that, it was absolutely impossible to have the LEAST disorder in the body, and not only come with in the supramental changebody, but IN ALL THE SURROUNDING MATTER. …in So if that is established in a supramentalised body immunity from permanent way, there CAN NO LONGER be illness it is impossible. There can no longer be accidents, there can no longer be illness would , there can no longer be automaticdisorders, inherent and everything should harmonize (probably in its new nature. a progressive way) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3101/illnessjune-and6-health1958#p52p10</ref>

The complete immunity from all ...health or illness for which our Yoga tries can only come by is a total choice (to express it simply). A choice of every minute. For this body, at any rate, that's how it is.It means abdicating with regard to the general functioning of the physical substance, of the body, and permanent enlightenment having illnesses you get cured of or not, depending on... other laws than physical laws. But there is every minute—every minute—the possibility to choose the below from above resulting in true consciousness, or there is, yes, a disorder or disequilibrium. It's something which is unable to follow the removal movement of the psychological roots progressive harmony, or sometimes even which doesn't want to. I am talking about cells and groups of ill health—it cannot be done otherwisecells.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3109/illnessjune-and15-health1968#p38p14,p15</ref>

...take a supramental being having Disease is needlessly prolonged and ends in death oftener than is inevitable, because 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 mind of the transformation to be genuine, patient supports and dwells upon the disease of his body ALSO has to attain a harmony above—above all illnesses and accidents. [Aphorism<386>] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1210/julyaphorism-386-10387-388-1971389#p12p1</ref>

On one side You are given an illness purposely to make you progress? Surely it is not like that. Actually, you may turn the thing round and say that there are people whose aspiration is so constant, whose goodwill so total that whatever happens to them they take as a trial on the claim path to make progress. I knew people who, whenever they fell ill, took that as a proof of the Divine Grace to help them to progress. They told themselves: it is a good sign, I am going to find out the cause of my illness and I shall make the rest should be impossiblenecessary progress. I knew a few of this kind and they moved on magnificently. There are others, on the other a violent rejection contrary, who, far from making use of the only condition under which these things can become impossiblething, let themselves fall flat on the ground.So much the worse for them..but But the true attitude when one is ill, is to say: "There is something that is one reason why not all right; I am going to see what it is necessary to transform ." You must never think that the human and put something Divine has purposely sent an illness, for that would truly be a little more luminous in its place. very wicked Divine!<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2905/bhakti-yoga22-andjuly-vaishnavism1953#p35p2</ref>