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<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....any discomfort, any disease is a falsehood… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/1209/septemberjune-2915-19711968#p6p12</ref>

...falsehood in it as an imperfection of the body is a falsehood in the consciousness The falsity to be got rid of as you try to get rid of the consciousness naturally has material consequencesvital imperfections or mental errors... and that's what illness is!...<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0229/octoberequality-the-2chief-1961support#p15p18</ref>

An illness is...falsehood in every case it's the body is a disequilibrium falsehood in the being: a disequilibrium between various functionings, a disequilibrium between forces… consciousness. The falsity of the consciousness naturally has material consequences... and that's what illness is!... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0902/juneoctober-152-19681961#p12p15</ref>

Illness is always Each illness represents its own vibratory mode. Each illness has its own vibratory mode; it represents a lapse into unconsciousness through whole field of vibrations to be corrected. It's the EXACT measure of what in Matter resists the incapacity divine Influence—the exact measure, down to sustain the movement of transformation..atom. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/januaryfebruary-258-1967#p24p7</ref>

ItAn epidemic is a ''collective''s [ illness is] and comes from a ''collective'' impurity… The forms of illness vary according to the EXACT measure condition of what in Matter resists the divine Influence—the exact measure, down to each person and his link with the atomwhole.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0816/february8-8july-19671964#p7p3</ref>

All disease In its lowest parts (vital-material) it is a means towards some new joy of health....  [Based on Aphorism<135>]All disease is a means towards some new joy the agent of health, all evil and pain a tuning of Nature for some more intense bliss and good, all death an opening on widest immortalityphysical illness etc. Why and how this should be so, is God's secret which only the soul purified of egoism can penetrate.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/1128/marchthe-4physical-1970consciousness#p1p25</ref>

An epidemic 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 collective illness particular force. Only most people do not really choose—they undergo the play of the forces. Your illnesses, depressions etc. are the repeated play of such forces. It is only when one can make oneself free of them that one can be the true person and comes from have a collective impurity… true life—but one can be free only by living in the Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1628/8-julyoccult-1964knowledge#p3p9</ref>

An illness which comes in the ordinary course as the result ==Causes 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>Illness==

One [illness]brought by A. That depends on the forces hostile to Yoga to upset 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 system and prevent or disturb progress—without any adequate physical reason—is a hostile attackmost ordinary manner, it is an ordinary accident.It depends absolutely on the person.<ref>http://incarnatewordThe outer phenomena may be 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/cwsa/31/illness-fact every person is ill in his own way, and his way depends on what he is, on his state of consciousness and-health#p17</ref>the life he leads.

No two Even from the ordinary external point of view, it has been recognised for a very long time that it is a fall in 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 lives in a normal physical harmony, the body has a capacity of resistance, it has within it an atmosphere strong enough to resist illnesses: its most material substance emanates subtle vibrations which have the strength to resist illnesses , even diseases which are alikecalled contagious—in fact, though labels all vibrations are putcontagious, but still, certain diseases are considered as especially contagious...to group them; but Well, a man who, even from the purely external point of view, is in fact every person is ill a state in which his own wayorgans function harmoniously and an adequate psychological balance prevails, has at the same time enough resistance for the contagion not to 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 his way depends on what he isopen to the disease. But if we consider someone who is doing yoga, then it is altogether different, on his state in the sense that the causes of disequilibrium are of consciousness a different nature and the life illness usually becomes the expression of an inner difficulty which has to be overcome.So each one should find out for himself why he leadsis ill. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p2p1,p3,p4,p5</ref>

...health It's the effect of a combination of three things: bad will (at the worst, a refusal to follow the movement), a more or illness less total bad will; an ignorance of the laws and their consequences, that is... , the causes and effects (a complete ignorance); and, of course, a form of inertia—it's all a choice form of every minuteinertia, but the greatest form of inertia is the incapacity to receive and respond.These three things combined are what creates diseases and so on, and the final effect—death.That is, the disintegration of created harmony. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/junemarch-152-1968#p15p38</ref>

All life The nervous (vital-physical) being supports the body—if it is calm and strong and solid, then the play body is well supported and can withstand illness and weakness or, if illness comes, it will bear and more easily get rid of universal forcesit.If the nervous being is weak, then it is the opposite..most people...undergo If the nervous being is not merely weak, but nervous and unstable, over-sensitive, vehement or 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 disorders into the play body that are nervous and not physical—there is no physical illness of the forces.Your illnessesheart but there are pains and palpitations, depressions etc. nothing physically wrong with stomach and intestines and yet there is inability to digest—nervous dyspepsia; pains are created in different parts of the repeated play of such forces… <ref>http://incarnatewordbody and so on—sometimes there is hysteria.in/cwsa/28/occult-knowledge#p9</ref>

Illness must not be accepted as Depression and discouragement have a means of transformationvery adverse effect; they cut out holes in it rather indicates certain difficulties encountered by the force of transformation especially [nervous envelope], as it were, in the vital its very stuff, render it weak and unresisting and the body… open to hostile attacks an easy passage. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/illness16-andjune-health1929#p4p11</ref>

You are given an illness purposely to make you progress? Surely it is not like that...You must never think that the Divine has purposely sent an illnessbody's whole functioning is a discipline, for and if there is a part that would truly be a very wicked Divine!no longer wants to follow the discipline—out of revolt or incapacity or...for any reason—if it stops following the discipline, you fall ill. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0510/22february-july8-19531969#p2p37</ref>

To make people ill in order to improve or perfect them is not Mother's method… <ref>http://incarnateword...all disorders in/cwsa/30/difficulties-experienced-the body and all diseases are the result of DOUBT in-the-process-cells or a certain group of-descent#p18</ref> ==Virtue== cells...The child must be taught as early as possible...that he does not become more interesting by They doubt the Divine's concrete reality, they doubt the Divine Presence in them, they doubt their being illdivine in their very essence, but rather and this doubt is the contrary...Children should therefore be taught that to be ill is a sign cause of weakness and inferiority, not of some virtue or sacrificeall disorders. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1205/physicalmay-14-education1964#p9p4</ref>

...illness the cause of disease is psychic, that is a thing to say, subjective and the direction should be eliminatedtowards curing the inner causes much more than patching up by physical means. These are ideas that have their truth also. I fully recognise the psychic law and methods and their preferability, but the ordinary run of humanity is not accepted or enjoyed..ready for that rule and, while it is so, doctors and their physical methods will be there. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3128/illnessmorality-and-healthyoga#p58p46</ref>

...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 to accept illness as enter through the conscious mind, the Divine Willwhole of your subconscious is there, but rather look upon almost helplessly open to take any kind of suggestion. In life it as an imperfection is the action of the body… subconscious that has the larger share and it acts a hundred times more powerfully than the conscious parts.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2903/equality-the19-chiefmay-support1929#p18</ref>

The Divine Force cannot In the subconscient there is an obscure mind full of obstinate Sanskaras [imprints or habits], impressions, associations, fixed notions, habitual reactions formed by its descent be our past, an obscure vital full of the cause seeds of madness any more than it can be habitual desires, sensations and nervous reactions, a most obscure material which governs much that has to do with the condition of apoplexy the body. It is largely responsible for our illnesses; chronic or any other physical illness… 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/cwsaagenda/3109/accidentsjune-possession15-madness1968#p30p6</ref>

Whatever force is sent is Out of the subconscious we bring ordinarily so much to the surface as our waking sense mind and intelligence need for curetheir purpose; in so bringing them up we are not aware of their nature, origin, operation and do not apprehend them in their own values but by a translation into the values of our waking human sense and intelligence. Increase 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. It is only by an experience abnormal to us, most commonly in illness or some disturbance of balance, that we can become directly aware of something in the dumb world, dumb but very active, of our bodily being and vitality or grow conscious of the secret movements of the mechanical subhuman physical suffering and vital mind which underlies our surface,—a consciousness which is ours but seems not the result ours because it is not part of our known mentality. This and much more lives concealed in the forcesubconscience. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3122/illnessout-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-andsevenfold-healthknowledge#p14p9</ref>

I find it difficult to believe that illness and deterioration of Yet all the body is time the natural and general result of the practice of Yoga or that that practice universal forces are pouring into him without his knowing it. He is the cause aware only of an inevitable breakdown of healththoughts, feelings etc...It is more rational that rise to conclude that both Yogis the surface and non-Yogis fall ill and die these he takes for his own. Really they come from natural causes outside in mind waves, vital waves, waves of feeling and by the same dispensation of Nature… <ref>http://incarnatewordsensation etc.which take particular forms in/cwsa/31/illness-him and-health#p8</ref>rise to the surface after they have got inside. ==Imperfection in Other Parts== As for the question But they do not get into his body at once. He carries about with him an environmental consciousness (called by the illness, perfection in Theosophists the physical plane is indeed part aura) into which they first enter. If you can become conscious of this environmental self of yours, then you can catch the ideal thought, passion, suggestion or force of the Yogaillness, or whatever it may be, before it enters and prevent it from entering into you. If things in you are thrown out, they often do not go altogether but ...one may have take refuge in this environmental atmosphere and from there try to get in again or they go to a certain perfection distance outside but linger on other planes without having immunity in the bodyoutskirts or even perhaps far off, waiting till they get an opportunity to attempt entrance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3128/illnessthe-andenvironmental-healthconsciousness#p57p6</ref>

When the physical consciousness is being changed, the chief resistance comes from the subconscient...It is constantly maintaining or bringing back the inertia, weakness, obscurity, lack of intelligence which afflict the physical mind and vital or the outer expression obscure fears, desires, angers, lusts of a disorderthe physical vital, such as swollen legs or a malfunctioning liver—...a functional disorder…. IT IN NO WAY CHANGES THE BODY'S TRUE CONSCIOUSNESS. Although we are in the habit of thinking that illnesses, dullnesses, pains, incapabilities to which the body -nature is very disturbed when it's ill, when something is going wrong, it's not soprone. It isn't disturbed in the way we understand it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/january-31-1961#p3</ref> ==Incurable==

There When something is erased from the subconscient so completely that it leaves no such thing as an incurable illness in reality—for what seed and thrown out of the doctors call such is circumconscient so completely that it can return no more, then only an illness can we be sure that we have finished with it for which they have not yet been able to discover a physical remedy… ever. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3128/specific-illnessesthe-ailmentssubconscient-and-other-physicalthe-problemsinconscient#p1p17,p19</ref>

=What Is =Role of the Cause?Vital==

It's All this egoistic insistence on your own ideas, claims, preferences—assertion of your own righteousness as against the realm that's... beyond the subtle physicalwickedness of others, complaints, quarrels, disputes, rancours against those around you and it's the realm in which formations of illness MATERIALIZE..reactions they cause—have had this effect on your liver and stomach and nerves. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0431/decemberdoctors-25and-1963medicines#p13p9</ref>

If you receive a blow in the vital, the body suffers the consequence.More than half of our illnesses are the result of blows of this kind, and this happens much more often than one believes..all disorders...Only, men are not conscious of their vital, and all diseases as they are not conscious they don't know that fifty per cent of their illnesses are the result of DOUBT what happens in the cellsvital: shocks, accidents, fighting, ill-will....Externally this is translated by an illness.they doubt If one knows how it reacts on the Divine Presence in themphysical, they doubt their being divine one goes to its source and can cure oneself in their very essence, and this doubt is the cause of all disorders a few hours.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/05/may29-14april-19641953#p4p8</ref>

Unfortunately, there is the vital which pokes its nose into the affair and takes a very perverse pleasure in increasing, twisting, sharpening the suffering...Now this deforms the cause whole system because instead of disease is psychicbeing an indicator, sometimes it becomes an occasion for enjoying the illness, that is to sayfor making oneself interesting, subjective and also having the direction should be towards curing opportunity to pity oneself—all kinds of things which all come from the inner causes much vital and are all detestable, one more than patching up by physical means… another. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2806/morality17-andnovember-yoga1954#p46p20</ref>

In its lowest parts Illness in the body is like impurity in the vital,...It may happen that in throwing out the illness (vital-materialthe attacking force) one throws out also something within, some impurity which helped it to come, but that is the agent result of pain, physical a Force working within and not of the illness etc.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/2831/theillness-physicaland-consciousness#p25</ref> ==Fear== It [fear] is more dangerous than the worst disease. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/fearhealth#p30p62</ref>

If ...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 ill out of spite, there are people who are ill out of hate, there are people who are ill through despair, there are people... And these are not formidable movements: it is quite a small movement in the being: one mental disorder which can bring about all illnessesis vexed and says: "You will see what is going to happen, you will see the consequences 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 fearsomething somewhere that thinks in that way.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0405/3122-marchjuly-19511953#p3p57</ref>

...fear always brings what one fears. If you fear an accidentvital when left to itself often invites illness, it finds it dramatic—thinks it makes it interesting to others, this acts like a magnet drawing likes to indulge the accident towards youtamas, etc.etc..And the same thing holds for illness... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0631/27illness-januaryand-1954health#p6p63</ref>

In factDiseases, ninety per cent of illnesses are accidents, catastrophes, wars, all that, is because the result human material consciousness is so small, so narrow that it has a rabid taste for drama. And of course, behind there is the subconscient fear of vital being having fun, influences too... anyway all that enjoys an opportunity to delay the bodydivine Work and make things difficult. And all that takes pleasure in that naturally encourages drama.In But the ordinary consciousness seed of the body there difficulty is a more or less hidden anxiety about the consequences that pettiness, extreme pettiness of the slightest physical disturbanceconsciousness—the material physical consciousness—which has an absolutely perverse taste for drama.Drama—the slightest thing has to make a drama: if you have a toothache, it becomes a drama; if you bang against something, it becomes a drama; if two nations quarrel, it becomes a drama—everything becomes a drama.The taste for drama.this anxiety is a lack of confidence The slightest upset in the Divine's Gracebody,the unmistakable sign that the consecration is not complete and perfectleast disorder, which should go completely unnoticed, oh, it makes a big fuss,a drama. The taste for drama.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1508/fearjune-and14-illness1967#p3</ref>

If you have fear or apprehension The feeling of illness in is at first only a suggestion; it becomes a reality because your vital, that physical consciousness accepts it. It is like a wrong suggestion in the first thing to be thrown awaymind; if the mind accepts it, as it helps becomes clouded and confused and has to struggle back into harmony and clearness. It is so with the illnesses to come inbody consciousness and illness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p69p22</ref>

When a force is thrown on you or a vibration of illness, it carries to the body this suggestion...they say they're illA wave comes in the body—with a certain vibration in it, the body remembers "cold" or feels the vibrations of a cold and so they are afraid. Itbegins to cough or sneeze or to feel chill—the suggestion comes to the mind in the form, "I am weak, I don's not true! They are afraid firstt feel well, I am catching a cold."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and then they fall ill. They constantly live with -health#p24</ref>That is how illnesses try to come from one person to another—they attack, by a sort of apprehension: "Ohsuggestion like this or otherwise, what's going the nervous being and try to happen?" So something happens! .come in..The poor body feels that's what Even if the illness is expected of itnot contagious, this often happens, and but it obeys! comes more easily in contagious illnesses.The suggestion or touch has to be thrown off at once. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0731/octoberillness-22and-1966health#p5p31</ref>

The first thing from which you must cure yourself once for ever, is ''Fear''...a fear in It is more dangerous than the cells—is fear which opens the door to all contagion..worst disease. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0914/19-june-1957fear#p6p30,p31</ref>

Diseases are just that...The two things together: possession and fearIf there is one mental disorder which can bring about all illnesses,... And a sense of helplessness in all that. The possession by an idea and a helplessness to reject it... And then a sort of fearfulness that is translated in us by, "Oh, it's going to be that way... oh, it's going to be a disease...fear." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0604/december31-18march-19651951#p9p3</ref>

The real disease is fearNot be afraid of falling ill! That's what. You see, they say, "But I AM ill. Throw " They put it the fear away and the disease will go. <ref>httpother way around://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/fear-they say they're ill, and-illness#p9</ref> ==Subconscient== In the subconscient there is an obscure mind full of obstinate Sanskaras [imprints or habits], so they are afraid...habitual reactions formed by our pastIt's not true! They are afraid first, an obscure vital..and then they fall ill.They constantly live with a most obscure material which governs... with the condition sort of the apprehension: "Oh, what's going to happen?" So something happens! (Mother laughs) The poor body. It feels that's what is largely responsible for our illnesses… expected of it, and it obeys! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0907/juneoctober-1522-19681966#p6p4</ref>

The subconscient 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 main...support body are afraid of death and disease 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 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 speaking of the first two types of fear which, as I said, any human being who wants to be human in the noblest sense ofthe 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 minimum of control over the body, one can lessen its effects, but that is not immunity. Ignorance..It is this kind of trembling of material, physical fear in the cells of the body which aggravates all illnesses.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2809/the19-subconscient-and-thejune-inconscient1957#p37p6</ref>

We know that 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.subconscient And the same thing holds for illness...remains submerged and obscurely at work below our conscious nature...into which past impressions and all that is rejected from There are people who can move about among the surface mind sink sick and remain in places where there dormant are epidemics and can surge up in sleep or in any absence of the mind,…forms of automatic vital reaction or impulse, forms of physical abnormality or nervous perturbance, forms of morbidity, never catch a disease. There are others—it is enough for them to spend an hour with a sick person, unbalancethey catch the illness.That too depends on what they are within themselves..<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2206/out-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the27-sevenfoldjanuary-knowledge1954#p9p6</ref>

If The two things together: possession and fear, a sort of fearfulness. And a sense of helplessness in you are thrown outall that. The possession by an idea and a helplessness to reject it, they often do not go altogether but take refuge in this[the] environmental atmosphere and from there try a fear, a helplessness to get resist. And then a sort of fearfulness that is translated in again or they go us by, "Oh, it's going to a distance outside but linger on the outskirts or even perhaps far offbe that way... oh, waiting till they get an opportunity it's going to attempt entrancebe a disease.... " <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/2806/thedecember-environmental18-consciousness1965#p6p9</ref>

The suggestions that create illness In fact, ninety per cent of illnesses are the result of the subconscient fear of the body. In the ordinary consciousness of the body there is a more or unhealthy conditions less hidden anxiety about the consequences of the slightest physical being come usually through disturbance. It can be translated by these words of doubt about the subconscientfuture: "And what will happen?" It is this anxiety that must be checked.Indeed this anxiety is a lack of confidence in the Divine's Grace, the unmistakable sign that the consecration is not complete and perfect..<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3115/illnessfear-and-healthillness#p40p3</ref>

When First of all, from the physical consciousness is being changed, point of view of the chief resistance comes from body—just the subconscientbody—there are two kinds of disequilibrium: functional and organic. It is constantly maintaining or bringing back I do not know if you are aware of the difference between the two; but you have organs and then you have all the inertiaparts of your body: nerves, weakness, obscuritymuscles,bones and all the rest...or the illnessesNow, dullnessesif an organ by itself is in disequilibrium, painsit is an organic disequilibrium, incapabilities and you are told: that organ is ill or perhaps it is badly formed or it is not normal or an accident has occurred to which it. But it is the body-nature organ that is proneill. <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.in/cwsa/28/the-subconscient-and-the-inconscient#p17</ref> ==Forces of Disintegration== They[there] are forces is a lack of disintegration...this is balance in the origin of germs and microbesfunctioning. Therefore most microbes You may have behind them a bad will ...The microbe is a very material expression of good stomach, but suddenly something happens to it and it does not function properly; or the body may also be excellent, but something living in a subtle physical world.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/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p49p31</ref>

The possibilities of illness Human life and mind are always there in your body and around you; you ...succumb to an illness ...due to a "depression of the vital force"...the depression...comes from some disharmony neither in tune with Nature like the being, from a lack of receptivity to the divine forces. ...this depression...createdanimals nor with Spirit—it [creates''human nature''] is disturbed, incoherent, conflicting with itself, without harmony and balance...a "favourable ground" and something takes advantage of We can then regard it. ...It is this that is the cause of your falling ill and as diseased, if not microbesitself a disease. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0328/19science-mayand-1929yoga#p14p69</ref>

There is nothing that isn't a "microbe" or a "virus"... but it's all The mind with its dogmas, its rigid and arbitrary principles, the vital with its passions, its excesses and dissipations soon destroy the same thing!... For natural balance of the cellsbody and create in it fatigue,the problem isexhaustion and disease...whether to follow It must be freed from this tyranny and this can be done only through a constant union with the Will for Transformation...or whether to follow psychic centre of the Will for Harmony, which is always pleasant, and is always there, even when outwardly things are decomposingbeing. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0612/julythe-science-7of-1965living#p7p14</ref>

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>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p77p78</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>

...there is a group of such [feed upon human vitality thrown out of the body's whole functioning 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 origin of microbes. They are forces 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 disciplinebad will and that is what makes them so dangerous. And unless one knows the quality and kind of bad will and is capable of acting upon it, and if there is a part that no longer wants to follow ninety-nine per cent chance of not finding the discipline—out true and complete remedy. The microbe is a very material expression of revolt or incapacity orsomething living in a subtle physical world and that is why these very microbes... that are always around you, within you, for any reason—if it stops following the discipline, years together do not make you ill and then suddenly they make you fall ill.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1005/february22-8july-19691953#p37p49</ref>

They speak of viruses, they speak of microbes, they speak...reaction against but we are entirely made up of those things! It's only their interplay, their way of adjusting and harmonizing among themselves that makes all the transformative will difference. There is what causesnothing that isn't a "microbe" or a "virus"—they give ugly names to the things they don't want, but it's all the same thing!... disordersFor 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), or whether to follow the Will for Harmony... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0206/augustjuly-87-19611965#p4p7</ref>

The possibilities of illness are always there in your body and around you; you carry within you or there 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 "depression of the vital force"..But from where does the depression come? It comes from some disharmony in the bodybeing, whatever has trouble adjusting from a lack of receptivity to the divine forces. When you cut yourself off from the energy and light that sustain you, then there is this new Power creates difficultiesdepression, disorders there is created what medical science calls a "favourable ground" and illnessessomething takes advantage of it. Yet in It is doubt, gloominess, lack of confidence, a flash selfish turning back upon yourself that cuts you sense off from the light and divine energy and gives the attack this advantage. It is this that if you were totally receptive, you would become formidableis the cause of your falling ill and not microbes.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1303/19-may-6-19721929#p32p14</ref>

Your inner condition becomes a cause Hostile [''source of illness when there is a resistance ...or when there is some part in you that does not respond ''] here means hostile to the protection; or evenYoga... that almost ...wilfully calls An illness which comes in the ordinary course as the result of physical causes—even though adverse universal forcesare the first cause—is an ordinary illness. It is enough if there is a slight movement of this kind in you; One brought by the forces hostile forces are at once upon you to Yoga to upset the system and their prevent or disturb progress—without any adequate physical reason—is a hostile attack takes often . It may have the form appearance of a cold or any other illness, but to the eye which sees the action of forces and not only the outward symptoms or results, the difference is clear.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0331/19illness-mayand-1929health#p12p17</ref>

This[The] divergence between Attacks of illness are attacks of the progress in the inner being and the inertia lower nature or of adverse forces taking advantage of the body often creates a dislocation some weakness, opening or response in the systemnature, —like all other things that come and that manifests itself as an illness..have got to be thrown away, they come from outside. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p6</ref> ==Adverse Forces== Loss of balance produces disorder in the consciousness and the adverse forces use that loss of balance for attacking… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/accidentsillness-possessionand-madnesshealth#p24p15</ref>

Attacks ...but it is not your consciousness that wants to be ill, it is some part of illness are attacks your body or at the most, a fragment of the lower nature or vital that has gone wrong and wishes to be ill, and unless you observe with a good deal of attention you do not notice it). But I say that the situation gets complicated if behind this there is an attack, a pressure from adverse forces taking advantage who really want to harm you. You may have opened the door through spiritual error, through a movement of vanity, of some weaknessanger, opening of hatred or response in of violence; even if it is merely a movement that comes and goes, that can open the naturedoor.There are always germs watching and only waiting for an occasion..<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/illness22-andjuly-health1953#p15p60</ref>

...it is some part of your And in the body or...a fragment of the vital that , whatever has gone wrong and wishes trouble adjusting to be illthis new Power creates difficulties, disorders and illnesses...the situation gets complicated Yet in a flash you sense that if behind this there is an attackyou were totally receptive, a pressure from adverse forces who really want to harm youwould become formidable. You may have opened That's the door through spiritual error, through a movement of vanity, of anger, of hatred or of violence; even sensation. That's more and more my sensation: that if it is merely a movement that comes and goesthe entire consciousness, that can open the doorentire most material consciousness—the most material—was receptive to this new Power... There are always germs watching and only waiting one would become for an occasion… -mi-dable.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0513/22may-july6-19531972#p60p32</ref>

...Your inner condition becomes a cause of illness when there is a resistance or revolt in it or when there is some part in you that does not respond to the mind protection; or even there may be something there that almost willingly and consciousness have rejected wilfully calls in the attacks, adverse forces. It is enough if there is a slight movement of this kind in you; the contrary hostile forces fall on some weak point in are at once upon you and their attack takes often the body hoping that by pain or form of illness they will depress the consciousness and so make it less strong to resist and reject them... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/illness19-andmay-health1929#p95p12</ref>

Sometimes it's an altogether INSIGNIFICANT intrusion of falsehood, for some quite insignificant reason—what is commonly labeled a stupidity. This stems from divergence between the fact that progress in the adverse forces are always lying in wait, ready to rush in at inner being and the least sign inertia of weakness. <ref>http://incarnateword.the body often creates a dislocation in/agenda/02/july-18-1961#p59</ref> ==Disharmony== 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.the cause of all illnesses, all disorders, all conflicts, here Or if there is a greater and unusual receptivity in the material worldbody, is that then too they escape. But an unmixed receptivity making the two simultaneous movements (one is physical parts closely follow the movement pace of Stability—and the other, the movement of inner transformation)is hardly possible, unless the two movements body has already been prepared in the original Consciousness are only one and...here, they are separate,...they don't KNOW how to be in harmony: they can, but they don't know..past for the processes of Yoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1103/february16-25june-19701929#p8p6</ref>

Human life You have been told: "Open yourself, you will receive the Force." You have been told: "Have faith, be of goodwill and mind you will be protected." And indeed you are neither 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 tune with Nature 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 descending Force, this acts like a grain of sand in a machine..nor You know, a fine machine working quite well with Spirit—it [human nature] is disturbedeverything going all right, incoherentand you put into it just a little sand (nothing much, conflicting with itselfonly a grain of sand), without harmony suddenly everything is damaged and balancethe machine stops. We can then regard 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 diseasedit were a little dark spot somewhere, if 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 a diseasesick, 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/2805/science22-andjuly-yoga1953#p62p41</ref>

...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 a very serious poison. It is a poison that destroys the cells...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. 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.<centerref>~http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/24-march-1954#p4</centerref>

Fever is not a purifying action; it is the sign of an attack on the body and a fight and resistance to the attack… attack.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p62</ref>

Insanity is always due to a vital attack, or rather possession although there is often a physical reason as well. Hysteria is due to a pressure from the vital world and there may be momentary possessions also... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/accidents-possession-madness#p22</ref>

...skin diseases have much to do with sexual desires—not of course always, but often.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p216</ref>

T.B. is the result of a strong psychic-vital depression...The lack of vitality which easily comes as a result of modern civilisation is therefore a very strong contributing cause. Moderns have not the solid nervous system and the natural (as opposed to the artificial and morbid) zest of life that their ancestors had. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p4</ref>

=Why How to Prevent Illness Develops?= ''Q. Sweet Mother, when one sees an illness coming, how can one stop it?''

''A.'' Ah! First of all, you must not want it and nothing in the body must want it.You must have a very strong will not to be ill.each one should find out for himself why he This is illthe first condition. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p5</ref>

First, not to want to be ill, and then not to be afraid of illness.You must neither attract it nor tremble.You must not want illness at all.when But you must not because of fear not want it; you take must not be afraid; you must have a wrong attitudecalm certitude and a complete trust in the power of the Grace to shelter you from everything, it immediately sets off and then think of something else, not be concerned about this any longer. When you have done these two things, refusing the illness with all your will and infusing a confidence which completely eliminates the disordersfear in the cells of the body, and then busying yourself with something else, not thinking any longer about the illness, forgetting that it exists...there, if you know how to do that, you may even be in contact with people who have contagious diseases, and yet you do not catch them. <ref>http://incarnatewordBut you must know how to do this.in/agenda/03/june-20-1962#p6</ref>

Many people say, "Oh, yes, here I am not afraid." They don't have any fear in the mind, their mind is not afraid, it is strong, it is not afraid; but the body trembles, and one doesn't know it, because it is in the cells of the body that the trembling goes on. It trembles with a terrible anxiety and this is what attracts the illness. It is there that you must put the force and the quietude of a perfect peace and an absolute trust in the 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, and then, that the inner methods are not powerful enough to act on the physical, and all kinds of stupidities of which the air is full. These are collective suggestions which are passed on from one person to another by everybody. <centerref>~https://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/11-may-1955#p10,p11,p12,p13,p14</centerref>

If The child must be taught as early as possible that this does not work and that he does not become more interesting by being ill, but rather the nervous being iscontrary...nervous The weak have a tendency to believe that their weakness makes them particularly interesting and to use this weakness and if necessary even illness as a means of attracting the attention and unstablesympathy of the people around them.On no account should this pernicious tendency be encouraged..excitable, then ...there may even Children should therefore be taught that to be ill is a wrongly acute creative imagination which brings in disorders into the body that are nervous sign of weakness and inferiority, not physicalof some virtue or sacrifice... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p49</ref>

Depression and discouragement But in any case a child, whatever his activities, should have a very adverse effect; they cut out holes in it[nervous envelope]sufficient number of hours of sleep. The number will vary according to his age. In the cradle,the baby should sleep longer than he remains awake.The number of hours of sleep will diminish as the child grows.. render But until maturity it weak and should not be less than eight hours, 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.open Even during the waking hours, relaxation is indispensable for all who want to hostile attacks.maintain their 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/0312/16-junephysical-1929education#p9,p10,p11</ref>

...passive meditationthere 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..leaves the vital and body passive and Those who are radiant (they may be radiant without defence against inertiait being a spiritual radiance, it may be just a radiation of good see, balance, an inner confidence, illness etc...The consciousness instead the joy of being concentrated gets widely diffused and loosely extended...Concentration must living), those who carry in themselves the earlier stages be active joy of living, these are in harmony with Nature and dynamic , being in harmony with the consciousness gathered Nature, generally avoid accidents, they are immune from diseases and capable of turning their life develops pleasantly as far as it is possible in the will in any directionworld as it is.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2906/concentration27-andjanuary-meditation1954#p86p8</ref>

The psychical prana interferes in all secret is to emerge from the higher operations to deform themego,... limits thereby the operations get out of its prison, unite ourselves with the mind Divine, merge into Him, not to allow anything to separate us from Him. Then, once one has discovered this secret and realises it in one's being, pain loses its justification and becomes suffering disappears. It is an all-powerful remedy, not only in the link deeper parts of its dependence on the body and its subjection to fatiguebeing, incapacityin the soul, disease, disorder, insanityin the spiritual consciousness, but also in life and in the pettinessbody. There is no illness, no disorder which can resist the precariousness discovery of this secret and even the possible dissolution putting of it into practice, not only in the workings higher parts of the physical mentality… <ref>http://incarnateword.being but in/cwsa/24/purification-the-lower-mentality#p5</ref>cells of the body.

==Affinity If one knows how to teach the cells the splendour that lies within them, if one knows how to make them understand the reality which makes them exist, gives them being, then they too enter the total harmony, and the physical disorder which causes the illness vanishes as do all other disorders of the being. <ref>https://incarnateword.in the Being==/cwm/09/13-february-1957#p9,p10,p11</ref>

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 sages sayevolutionary spiral, "Disorder occurs because pass from the nature has decided mental to be the spiritual; then, naturally, faith takes on a quality of a very high order. But I mean that in disorderdaily life, ordinary life,a very simple man who has a very ardent faith can have a mastery over his body—without it being truly a "mastery" ; it's not so sillyis 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/0609/may19-8june-19651957#p39p20,p21</ref>

In the psychological domain, only the patients who There are sadhus...they live in a truly dirty condition—and they are free from all illness. Probably because they have faith...they do not want to recoverthink of their body, do not recover. Perhaps it is they think of the same for physical diseases.life of their soul.They have no illness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1605/522-januaryjuly-19331953#p3p24</ref>

...people always think that it is not their fault that they are ill, in Yoga...faith and it is always their fault, and they right auto-suggestion are very angry of great use until the point comes when they are told this...And yet it no suggestion is truenecessary because the Truth-consciousness acts automatically and produces its natural results. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0731/16illness-februaryand-1955health#p37p39</ref>

Disease will always return to the body if the soul is flawed; for the sins ...it must be an integral faith and it must be absolute. And it must be of the mind are the secret cause right kind, not merely a force of the sins of the body… [Based on Aphorism<199>Disease mental thought or will, but something more and deeper. The will always return to put forth by the body if the soul mind sets up opposite reactions and creates a resistance...Mental faith is flawednot sufficient; for the sins it must be completed and enforced by a vital and even a physical faith, a faith of the mind are body...you must reach down to the secret cause of most subconscious, you must fix the sins of the body. So too poverty and trouble will always return on man faith in society, so long as the mind very cells of the race is subjected to egoismbody.] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1003/aphorism5-199may-2001929#p1p18</ref>

Disease is needlessly prolonged 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 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 ends in death oftener than the power of the will to develop a greater command and use of this prana force. There is inevitablenecessary a faith, because ''śraddhā'', in the power of the mind to lay its will on the state and action of the body, 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 patient supports inner and dwells upon greater over the disease outer and lesser instrument. This faith is combated by our past habits of mind, by our actual normal experience of his its comparative helplessness in our present imperfect system and by an opposing belief in the bodyand 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/cwmcwsa/1024/aphorismthe-386power-387of-388the-389instruments#p1p7</ref>[Based on aphorism<386>]

==To Teach a LessonBy Being Receptive to the Divine Force==

...all the so-called illnesses, everything, all What has to be done with the disorders are body at first is to make you learn a lesson—as soon as you've learned it open to the lessonForce, it's over! But then, you are so slow as to receive strength against illness and heavyfatigue—when they come, you take so much time there must be the power to react and throw them off and to realize that it's keep a lesson constant flow of force into the body. If that it drags on and on and onis done, the rest of the bodily change can wait for its proper time. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0528/octobertransformation-and-14the-1964body#p63p2</ref>

==By Strengthening the Nervous Envelope== To whatever cause an illness may be due, material or mental, external or internal, it must, before it can affect the physical body, touch another layer of the being that surrounds and protects it. This subtler layer is called in different teachings by various names,—the etheric body, the nervous envelope. It is to make a subtle body and yet almost visible. In density something like the vibrations that you understand 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 whenever must be invaded and penetrated first before the body can be affected. If this envelope is absolutely strong and intact, you are illcan 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, something undisturbed repose and cheerfulness and bright gladness constitute this element in it and give it strength and substance. It is ill a very sensitive medium with facile and quick reactions; it readily takes in your beingall kinds of suggestions and these can rapidly change and almost remould its condition.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0103/april16-24june-19601929#p1</ref>

...One thinks If one can feel them [attacks of curing an illness only because ] so coming and get the strength and the habit to throw them away before they can enter the body, then one sufferscan remain free from illness. If 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 caused invades the system. When you no unpleasantnessfeel it just after it has entered, it is because though it came direct and not through the subconscient, yet you would never think of being cured 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 through the subtle vital envelope which is our main armour of defence, but it can be stopped there in the envelope itself before itpenetrates the material body. Then one may feel some effect, e.g. Sofeverishness or a tendency to cold, in but there is not the economy full invasion of Nature I think that the first purpose 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 suffering was to give you a warningeffect and leaves no traces. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0631/17illness-novemberand-1954health#p19p15</ref>

Your ...we can feel the symptoms of illness gave you an opportunity to open your eyes towards , fever or cold for instance, in the subtle physical sheath before they are manifest in the gross body and destroy them there, preventing them from manifesting in the body. Take now the need call for an inner changethe 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 only see certain results after a long time. You must take advantage Or at most we feel a certain clarity and peace in the mind, a joy in the vital, a happy state in the physical and infer the touch of this the Divine. 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 subtle body, affecting the most material cells and making them conscious and blissful and we shall sense directly the Divine Power and progressPresence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1528/inner-causesthe-ofphysical-illnessconsciousness#p28p12 </ref>

The illness has come like You must not accept but reject it [suggestions] with your physical mind and so help the body consciousness to throw off the suggestion. If necessary, make a test counter-suggestion, "No, I shall be well; I am and gone like a purification carrying away shall be all that was standing right." And in any case call in the way of Mother's Force to throw out the suggestion and the joy of an integral consecrationillness it is bringing. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1531/innerillness-causes-ofand-illnesshealth#p17p22</ref>

Oh, how interesting it is, if you knew how interesting....Take coughing, for instance (not in the chest, in the throat).So, the state first vibration: an irritation that draws your attention in order to make you cough. It has a certain kind of illness was certainly a necessityvibration which we may call "pointed," but it's not violent: it's light, often a WILLED necessity annoying.It's the first little vibration..by So with that vibration: awakening of the soul attention in order the surrounding consciousness (of the throat cells); then a refusal to go faster on accept the cough, a rejection here (in the path—to save timethroat), which at first almost causes nausea (all this is seen through a microscope, you understand, to gain livesthey are very tiny things). The attention is focused. And if you canThen, at that point, there are several possible factors, if you have which are sometimes simultaneous and sometimes one drives away the power other; one is anxiety: something goes wrong and there is apprehension at what's going to bring happen; the other is a will that soul into contact with nothing should be disturbed by the force that governs its existence irritation; and leads it towards progressthen all of a sudden, towards the Realization, you do a work faith that the Force is capable of restoring order everywhere immediately (none of quite a superior qualitythis is intellectual: it's vibrations).<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agenda/0508/septemberfebruary-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-and8-health1967#p54p8</ref>

When you are open and in contact with ...if the Divinevital mind withdraws its consent, refuses to be dominated by the Vibration gives you strengthhabitual suggestions and the habitual movements, energy; these recurrences of depression and if you are quiet enoughdespair can be made soon to cease. But it is not easy for this mind, once it fills you with great joy—and all has got into the habit of this in consent, even a quite passive and suffering and reluctant consent, to cancel the cells habit and get rid of the bodyblack circle. You fall back into It can be done easily only when the ordinary consciousness and straightaway, without anything changing, mind refuses any longer to believe in the SAME thing, suggestions or accept the SAME vibration coming from ideas or feelings that start the SAME source turns into a pain, a malaise, a feeling of uncertainty, instability and decrepitude… circle. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0230/octoberthe-emergence-or-coming-2forward-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/06/24of-marchthe-1954psychic#p4p45</ref>

...nicotine is Illness must not be accepted as a very serious poison. It is a poison that destroys means of transformation; it rather indicates certain difficulties encountered by the cells...when one smokes for force of transformation especially in the first time vital and it makes one very illthe body. And this should make you understand that But it ought is not necessary that these difficulties should be allowed to take this obscure form of illness. All illness should be done. Only, people are so stupid that they think it is a weakness rejected and so continue until they get used all suggestions of illness; the Force should be called in to cure by the poison. And assent to health and the body no longer reacts, it allows itself refusal of assent to be destroyed without reacting: you get rid of the reactionsuggestions that bring or prolong its opposite. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0631/24illness-marchand-1954health#p4</ref>

==Role of SuggestionsBy Developing a Strong Will==

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 through old habit of consciousness admits the force of illness and illnessgoes through the experiences which are associated with it—e.g.congestion of phlegm in the chest and feeling of suffocation or difficulty of breathing etc.To get rid of that one must awaken a will and consciousness in the body itself that refuses to allow these things to impose themselves upon it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p22p54</ref>

When a force is thrown on you or Wake up in yourself a vibration of illness, it carries will to the body this suggestionconquer...—the suggestion comes to Not a mere will in the mind but a will in the form, "I am weak, I donvery cells of your body. Without that you can't do anything; you may take a hundred medicines but they won't feel well, I am catching cure you unless you have a coldwill to overcome the physical illness." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3115/illnesswill-to-andconquer-healthillness#p24p1</ref>

If you drink unfiltered water The idea is put into the heart or the life as a force to be accepted and worked out; the heart and thinklife 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, "Now I am drinking impure water"are informed with it, you have every chance filled with the emotion and the sense of falling sick. And it: the will and the life impulses are similarly charged with its power and its urge of self-effectuation; even though such suggestions may not enter through in the conscious mindbody the idea works so that, for example, the whole potent thought and will of your subconscious is therehealth replaces its faith in illness and its consent to illness, almost helplessly open to take any kind or the idea of suggestion. In life it is strength calls in the action substance, power, motion, vibration of strength; the idea generates the subconscious that has force and form proper to the larger share idea and imposes it acts a hundred times more powerfully than the conscious partson our substance of mind, life or matter. The normal human condition It is in this way that the first working proceeds; it charges the whole being with a state filled with apprehensions new and fears;...To be free from all fear can come only by steady effort and discipline..superior consciousness, lays a foundation of change, prepares it for a superior truth of existence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0322/19the-ascent-maytowards-1929supermind#p18p23</ref>

... illnesses try the first objects of the Pranayama are to come from one person purify the nervous system, to another—they attackcirculate the life-energy through all the nerves without obstruction, by disorder or irregularity, and to acquire a suggestion... or otherwisecomplete control of its functionings, so that the nervous being mind and try will of the soul inhabiting the body may be no longer subject to come inthe body or life or their combined limitations. Even if The power of these exercises of breathing to bring about a purified and unobstructed state of the illness nervous system is not contagious, this often happensa known and well-established fact of our physiology. It helps also to clear the physical system, but it comes more easily in contagious illnessesis not entirely effective at first on all its canals and openings; therefore the Hathayogin uses supplementary physical methods for clearing them out regularly of all their accumulations. The suggestion or touch has to be thrown off at oncecombination 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/cwsa/3123/illness-and-healthhathayoga#p31p10</ref>

Something is wrong here or there in The exercises of Pranayama are the familiar mechanical means of freeing and getting control of the body, a small thing;pranic energy... If you are unfortunate enough to utter a word about it to anyoneThey heighten too and set free the psychic, mental and especially to spiritual energies which ordinarily depend for their opportunity of action on the doctorpranic force...it instantly becomes But the same thing can be done by mental will and practice or by an illness…. it's because the cells that are in disorder feel all increasing opening of ourselves to a sudden they are very important and very interesting persons!higher spiritual power of the Shakti.The pranic Shakti can be directed not only upon ourselves, but effectively towards others or on things or happenings for whatever purposes the will dictates.. 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/agendacwsa/0624/augustthe-4divine-1965shakti#p33p6</ref>

==Role of Vital=How to 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 main obstacle cause is your own in the vital movements. ..and is still there; it is only the effect which has been cured.Quietness of But if one can act simultaneously upon both the mind in facing your illness is also necessary—agitation stops cause and the action of effect, and the Forcecause is sufficiently receptive to consent to change, then one is completely cured, once for all. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/04/31/doctors-andmarch-medicines1951#p9p13</ref>

If you receive a blow in the vital, the body suffers the consequence... illnesses are the result of what happens in the vital''Q: shocks, accidents, fighting, ill-will.... Externally this is translated by an What to do about illness. If one knows how ?'' A: Be passively confident: let me do it reacts on the physical, one goes to its source and can cure oneself in a few hoursit is done. ’ <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0515/29cure-by-the-aprildivine-1953grace#p8</ref>

...There is something there is that expects the vital whichillness, accepts it when it comes and gives it free play...takes a very perverse pleasure He must learn to keep calm and quiet in... suffering...sometimes the mind and vital being, to refuse to regard the illness and the tendency to it becomes an occasion for enjoying in the illness...all kinds of things which all come body as something normal to it, regarding it rather as something imposed from the vital outside, and are all detestable, ...But originally I think he must believe firmly that it was must and will go. If he can keep this: "Take care!" it's like a danger-signal: "Take careattitude and open to the true force, the mind and nervous being once strengthened, there's something out of orderthe illness and weakness will disappear."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0631/17illness-novemberand-1954health#p20p65</ref>

...vital when left ''Q:When I am sympathetic with a sick person my body begins to itself often invites illness, it finds it dramatic—thinks it makes it interesting feel the symptoms of his disease''A:The best way is to otherscall for the Divine Presence of Truth and Harmony, likes to indulge replace the tamas, etc. etcvibrations of disorder and confusion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3115/illness-and-healthgeneral#p63p28</ref>

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>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 shell of protection and acts there encouraging the illness to become as bad as it can be. In that case the first means is always not quite sufficient. Then you have to add something in ; you must add the vital physical Force of spiritual purification which is pleased such an absolutely perfectly constructive force that nothing that's in the least destructive can survive there. 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 be in the midst of this Force it gets dissolved, it disappears; for no force of disintegration can survive within this Force; therefore disintegration disappears and with becoming more weak and ill so it that also disappears. It can be changed into a constructive force, that is possible, or it can feel may be simply dissolved and lament reduced to nothing. And with that not only is the illness cured, but all possibility of its tragic casereturn is also eliminated. You are cured of the illness once for all, it never comes back. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/illness22-andjuly-health1953#p64p60</ref>

Illness in For certain things, I remember, when there are certain disorders, something wrong (and with the body perception of a consciousness that has become very sharp, you can see when that disorder is like impurity in the vitalnatural origin of an illness, for example, or of something very serious), with the call,the concentration and the response ... [the disorder is dissolved].It may happen that in throwing out 's almost a surrender, because it's an uncalculating self-giving: the damaged spot opens to the illness Influence, not with an idea of getting cured, but like this (the attacking force''gesture like a flower opening out'') one throws out also something within, some impurity which helped it to comesimply like this, but that unconditionally—that is the result of a Force working within and not of the illnessmost potent gesture. 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/cwsaagenda/3108/illnessdecember-and20-health1967#p62p25</ref>

Diseases, accidents, catastrophes, wars, all The particular place in the body affected by an illness is an index to the nature of the inner disharmony that, is because has taken place. It points to the human material consciousness is so smallorigin, so narrow that it has is a rabid taste for dramasign of the cause of the ailment. And It reveals too the nature of course, behind there is the vital resistance that prevents the whole being having fun, influences toofrom advancing at the same high speed.It indicates the treatment and the cure.. all If one could perfectly understand where the mistake is, find out what has been unreceptive, open that enjoys an opportunity to delay part and put the divine Work force and make things difficult... But the seed of light there, it would be possible to re-establish in a moment the difficulty is ...extreme pettiness of...harmony that has been disturbed and the material physical consciousness—which has an absolutely perverse taste for drama..illness would immediately go. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0803/16-june-14-19671929#p3p8</ref>

We are ALWAYS off balance, the body is always off balance (more or less), and it is something else, above, a Will or a Consciousness, that holds it up and makes it work...one must be very careful and look at oneself with great discrimination to discover So if we can call on that Will—that Will for Harmony—and if we can have the small part in oneself Flame within, that...takes pleasure in being ill... there are many reasons. There are people who are ill out Flame of spiteaspiration, and make contact,...out of hate...through despairwe emerge from so-called illness, there are people... one which is vexed unreal, an unreal and says: "...you will see false sensation and just one way of being of the consequences of what he has done to me! Let it come! I am going to be ill." One does not say it openly to oneselfgeneral Disorder, for one would scold oneselfand we enter into Harmony, but there and then everything is something somewhere that thinks in that wayfine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0506/22july-july10-19531965#p57p6</ref>

...It [if''the descent of the higher consciousness into the most physical''] brings light, consciousness, force, Ananda into the illness returnscells and all the physical movements. This means that The body becomes conscious and vigilant and performs the cause has not been changedright movements, obeying the higher will or else automatically by force of the consciousness that has come into it. It becomes more possible to control the cause functionings of the body and set right anything that is in wrong, to deal with illness and pain etc. A greater control comes over the actions of the vital body and is still there; even over happenings to it is only from outside, e.g. minimising of accidents and small mishaps. The body becomes a more effective instrument for work. It becomes possible to minimise fatigue. Peace, happiness, strength, lightness in the effect which has been curedwhole physical system. But if one can act simultaneously upon both These are the cause more obvious and normal results which grow as the effectconsciousness grows, and but there are many others that are possible. There is also the unity with the cause is sufficiently receptive to consent to changeearth-consciousness, then one is completely curedthe constant sense of the Divine in the physical, once for alletc.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0430/31descent-and-the-marchlower-1951nature#p13p26</ref>

=How to Prevent Illness?=By Overcoming Fear==

First, not to want to be ill, and then not to be afraid of illness. You ..one must be neither attract it cowardly nor tremblefearful. You When the physical disorder comes, one must not want illness at all. But you be afraid; one must not because of fear not want run away from it; you , must not be afraid; you must have face it with courage, calmness, confidence, with the certitude that illness is a calm certitude ''falsehood'' and that if one turns entirely, in full confidence, with a complete trust quietude to the divine Grace, It will settle in these cells as It is established in the power depths of the Grace to shelter you from everything..being, and the cells themselves will share in the eternal Truth and Delight.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0709/1113-mayfebruary-19551957#p13p12</ref>

We ought A strict discipline is needed to use cure the divine health in us to cure and prevent diseasesbody 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 certain point of view everything is contagious.I knew a person who got a wound through the kind of fear that he felt seeing someone else's wound.He really got it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1005/aphorism-394-395-396-39722-398july-3991953#p1p10</ref>

The secret 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 emerge from the ego, get out think of its prison, unite ourselves with the Divineand then snuggle in his arms or at his feet and leave him entirely responsible for everything that happens, merge into Himwithin, not to allow anything to separate us from Himoutside, everywhere—and immediately the fear disappears. There That is no illness, no disorder which can resist the discovery of this secret and cure for the mystic. It is the putting easiest of it into practice, all. But everybody does not only in enjoy the higher parts grace of the being but in the cells of the bodya mystic.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0905/1314-februaryoctober-19571953#p10p36</ref>

When Some people are ill 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 rhythm of their physical life which enables them to reduce the illness spontaneously to a minimum. There are others, on the other hand, with whom the thing always becomes as bad as it can be, sometimes to the point of catastrophe. There is the whole range and get well quicklythis can be seen quite easily. Well, they are full this depends on a kind of happy rhythm of the movement of gratitude; but never do they think life in them, which is either harmonious enough to resist external attacks of being grateful when they are well; illness or else doesn't exist or is not sufficiently powerful, and yet is replaced by that trembling of fear, that kind of instinctive anguish which transforms the least unpleasant contact into something painful and harmful. There is the whole range, from someone who can go through the worst contagion and epidemics without ever catching anything to one who falls ill at the slightest chance. So naturally it 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 a much greater miracle!..normal resistance to all attacks. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0509/2319-decemberjune-19531957#p52p7</ref>

For you 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 a concrete result. In the case of people who know how to be avoid getting completely upset as soon as they have a pain somewhere, who are able to do all kinds of things 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 it seems to be like this.you must Inwardly, I have a triple equilibrium—mentalbeen told this many times—told and shown by small experiences—that the body can bear much more than we think, vitalif no fear or anxiety is added to the pain. If we eliminate the mental factor, physical—and not only in each of the partsbody, left to itself, but also in has neither fear nor apprehension nor anxiety about what is going to happen—no anguish—and it can bear a great deal. [Based on Aphorism<93> Pain is the three parts touch of our Mother teaching us how to hear and grow in their mutual relations..rapture.She has tree stages of her schooling, endurance first, next equality of soul, last ecstasy. ] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0510/22-julyaphorism-195393#p30p3</ref>

But you mustn't be afraid.Neither afraid of falling ill, nor of becoming imbecile, nor even..particular Asanas . of dying—you must be like this ("vast and quiet gesture, like the sea"). If we could only have (I have even an effect in destroying particular diseasesit from time to time,—and with Pranayama maintains perfectly it comes: it's on its way) a feeling of smiling trust. But to get that the consciousness must be as vast as the health of creation itself. You are as vast as the bodycreation, and totally trusting....Ultimately, it always boils down to this (which can be put in a very childlike manner): He knows better than we what has to be done. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/2313/hathayogamay-17-1972#p10p40</ref> ==By Detachment==

...this kind of indifferent detachment is the ESSENTIAL condition for the establishment of true Harmony in Yogathe most material Matter—the most external, physical Matter...faith and right auto-suggestion are of great use until the point comes when no suggestion is necessary because the Truth-consciousness acts automatically and produces its natural results.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3102/illnessjanuary-and31-health1961#p39p14</ref>

...as This detachment of the consciousness becomes more subtle mind must be strengthened by practice a certain attitude of indifference to the things of Yogathe 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 come ; we have not to be aware fall into violent asceticisms or a positive neglect of the sea of pranic shakti around us,..physical frame.But until we thus become aware of it, we have not either to possess a ...necessary a faith, śraddhā, be affected in mind by hunger or thirst or discomfort or ill-health or attach the power of importance which the mind physical and vital man attaches to lay its will on the state and action things of the body, such as those have who heal disease by faith, will or mental action...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2423/the-powerrelease-offrom-subjection-to-the-instrumentsbody#p7p2</ref>

The exercises of Pranayama are One step towards it [illness] is to get the familiar mechanical means of freeing and getting control of inner consciousness separate from the pranic energy...The pranic Shakti can be directed body—to feel that it is not you who are ill but it is only upon ourselves, but effectively towards others or on things or happenings for whatever purposes something taking place in the will dictatesbody and not affecting your consciousness. Its effectivity It is immensethen possible to see this separate body consciousness, what it feels, what are its reactions to things,how it works.One can then act on it to change its consciousness and reactions. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2431/theillness-divineand-shaktihealth#p6p54</ref>

==Having FaithBy Surrender==

If people had ...all those physical disorders of the body, those disorders in the functioning or even organic disorders, suddenly (naturally, the constant state is one of aspiration: an absolute faith 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 least effort, and it starts... moving within an extraordinary progressive harmony; then, with no apparent reason, without anything having changed in the healing power 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 Gracewhy, perhaps they would spare themselves quite you don't have the key!......the only recourse is a few diseasesblissful surrender (''gesture of immobile offering Upward'').. and not a heavy, not an inert surrender: intense, intense! ...That's the only thing.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agenda/1106/march-1420-19701965#p12p34,p37</ref>

...it must congenital diseases can be cured only by an integral faith and it must be absolute. And it must be transformation of the right kind, body itself and we have not merely a force of mental thought or will, but something more and deeper. The will put forth by reached yet that period in the mind sets up opposite reactions and creates a resistance...Mental faith is not sufficientsadhana; otherwise it must be completed and enforced by is only a vital so-called "miraculous cure" that can take place and even a physical faith, a faith that kind of "miracle" can happen only as the result of an absolute sincerity in the body...you must reach down consecration to the most subconscious, you must fix the Divine and an unshakable faith in the very cells of the body..Divine Grace.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0315/5cure-by-the-maydivine-1929grace#p18p13</ref>

There Medicines are sadhus...they live in a truly dirty condition—and they are free from all illness. Probably because they ''pis aller'' [a course of action followed as a last resort] that have faithto be used when something in the consciousness does not respond or responds superficially to the Force.Very often it is some part of the material consciousness that is unreceptive—at other times it is the subconscient which stands in the way even when the whole waking mind, life, physical consent to the liberating influence..they do not think of their bodyIf the subconscient also answers, they think then even a slight touch of the life Force can not only cure the particular illness but make that form or kind of their soul. They have no illnesspractically impossible hereafter... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0531/22doctors-julyand-1953medicines#p24p6</ref>

Those who ''Q. Mother, how are radiant...they may medicines to be radiant without it being used for a spiritual radiance...those who carry in themselves body which is not altogether unconscious? For even when we draw on the joy of livingdivine grace, these are in harmony with Nature and, being in harmony with Nature, generally avoid accidentswe see that we need a little medicine, they are immune from diseases and their life develops pleasantly as far as if a little medicine is given it has a good effect. Does this mean that only the body needs medicine or is possible in there something wrong with the mind and the world as it is... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/27-january-1954#p8</ref>vital?''

==Being Receptive A. In most cases the use of medicines—within reasonable limits, that is, when one doesn't poison oneself by taking medicines—is simply to help the body to have confidence. It is the body which heals itself. When it wants to be cured, it is cured. And this is something very widely recognised now; even the most traditional doctors tell you, "Yes, our medicines help, but it is not the medicines which cure, it is the body which decides to be cured." Very well, so when the Divine Force==body is told, "Take this", it says to itself, "Now I am going to get better", and because it says "I am going to get better", well, it is cured!

What has to be In almost every case, there are things which help—a little—provided it is done with the body at first within reasonable limits. If it is no longer within reasonable limits, you are sure to make break down completely. You cure one thing but catch another which is usually worse. But still, a little help, in a way, a little something that gives confidence to your body: "Now it open to the Forcewill be all right, now that I have taken this, so as it is going to receive strength against illness be all right"—this helps it a great deal and fatigue—when they come, there must be the power it decides to react get better and throw them off and to keep a constant flow of force into the body. If that it is done, the rest of the bodily change can wait for its proper time.<ref>http://incarnatewordcured.in/cwsa/28/transformation-and-the-body#p2</ref>

Try If one can cure by the Force as you have often done, it is the best—but if for some reason the body is not able to keep yourself open respond to our the Force (e.g. owing to doubt, lassitude or discouragement or for inability to react against the disease), 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, that is the main thing..which responds more readily to physical means in its ordinary consciousness. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3109/doctors19-andjune-medicines1957#p8p9,p10,p11,p12</ref>

Medicine is necessary for our bodies in disease only because our bodies have learned the art of not getting well without medicines...he[Even so, one] must believe firmly sees often that it[illness] must and will go. If he[one] can keep this attitude and open to the true force, moment Nature chooses for recovery is that in which the mind and nervous being once strengthened, life is abandoned as hopeless by the illness and weakness will disappeardoctors. [Aphorism<404>]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3110/illnessaphorism-404-405-and406-health407#p65p1</ref>

...the experience that the Divine ALONE is acting in Drugs often cure the bodywhen they do not merely trouble or poison it, that He has BECOME but only if their physical attack on the body, yet all disease is supported by the while retaining his character force of divine omniscience and omnipotence...it was[is] absolutely impossible to have the LEAST disorder in the body, and not only in the body, but IN ALL THE SURROUNDING MATTER...There was[is] a divine harmony in EVERYTHING...So spirit; if that[this] is established in a permanent way,...There force can no longer be accidentsmade to work freely, drugs are superfluous...illness,... disorders, and everything should harmonize... [Aphorism<407>] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0110/juneaphorism-404-405-6406-1958407#p10p4</ref>

<center>~</center> When the physical disorder comes, one must not be afraid; one must...face it with courage, calmness, confidence, with the certitude that illness is a falsehood and that if one turns 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 ==Role of the being, and the cells themselves will share in the eternal Truth and Delight. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/13-february-1957#p12</ref>Supramental Descent==

<center>~</center> As The supramental descent is necessary for a dynamic action of the Truth in mind, vital and body consciousness becomes more open to . This would imply as a final result the Force (it is always disappearance of the most difficult and unconsciousness of the last body; it would no longer be subject to open up entirely), this[the] frequent stress of illness will diminish decay and disappeardisease.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3128/illnesstransformation-and-healththe-body#p56p16</ref> ==Strengthening In its normal state, the body always feels that it is not 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. Once the illness has got in, it can fight and overcome it—even modern medicine has acknowledged that the body is cured only when it decides to get cured; it is not the drugs per se that heal, for if the ailment is temporarily suppressed by a drug without the body's will, it grows up again elsewhere in some other form until the body itself has decided to be cured. But this implies only a defensive power, the Nervous Envelope==power to react against an invading enemy—it is not true freedom.

...illness ...must, before it can affect But with the physical bodysupramental manifestation, touch another layer of the being...called...something new has taken place in the etheric body, the nervous envelope. It is a subtle body and yet almost visible...: it emanates from the physical body and closely covers feels it. All communications is its own master, autonomous, with its two feet solidly on the exterior world are made through this mediumground, and as it is this that must be invaded and penetrated first before the body can be affectedwere. If this envelope is absolutely strong and intact, you can... remain quite immune. It is This gives a perfect protection against all possible attacks physical impression of illness...It is a very sensitive medium...it readily takes in all kinds of suggestions and these can rapidly change and almost remould the whole being suddenly drawing itself up, with its conditionhead lifted high—I am my own master. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0301/16october-june17-19291957#p3,p4</ref>

If one The absolute immunity can only come with the supramental change. For below the supramental it is conscious the result of an action of a Force among many forces and can be disturbed by a disruption of the subtle body or with equilibrium established—in the subtle consciousness, one can stop an illness on its way and prevent supramental it from entering is a law of the physical nature; in a supramentalised body..immunity from illness would be automatic, inherent in its new nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p52</ref>

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 Suppose that as a result of some illness and weakness orother, if illness comes, it will bear and more easily get rid there is some sort of itpain at a precise spot. If At that moment all will depend, as I said at the nervous being is weakbeginning, then it is on the oppositeapproach most familiar to you.But we can give an example.You are in pain, in great pain; it is hurting very much, you are suffering a lot. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p49</ref>

Second point: as I said, it depends on your habits...If you know how to concentrate, to be quiet, and if we develop the inward physical consciousnessyou can bring into yourself a certain peace, we become aware of any kind―it may be a subtle environmental physical atmosphere and can feel the forces of illness coming towards us through mental peace, itmay be a vital peace, feel them even at it may be a distance psychic peace; they have different values andqualities, if we have learned how this is an individual question―you try to do it, we can stop them by the will realise within yourself a state of peace or otherwiseattempt to enter into a conscious contact with a force of peace... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/Suppose you succeed more or less completely. Then, if you can draw the peace into yourself and bring it down into the-solar plexus―for we are not talking of inner states but of your physical-consciousness#p12 </ref>body―and from there direct it very calmly, very slowly I might say, but very persistently, towards the place where the pain is more or less sharp, and fix it there, this is very good.

The But if by widening this movement you can add a sort of mental formation with a little life in it―not just cold, but with a little life in it―that the only reality is the divine Reality, and all the cells of this body are a more or less deformed expression of this divine Reality―there is only one Reality, the Divine, and our body is a more or less deformed expression of this sole Reality―if by my aspiration, my concentration, I can bring into the cells of the body should reject illness as energetically as we reject falsehood in the mindconsciousness of this sole Reality, all disorder must necessarily cease. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/will-to-conquer-illness#p10</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>

All There's a power in the sound itself, and by forcing the body to repeat the sound, you force it to receive the vibration at the same time. But I've noticed that if something in the body's working gets disturbed (a pain or disorder, the onset of some illness should be rejected ) 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 suggestions in a movement of illness; surrender, surrender of the pain, the Force should be called disorder, and a call, like an opening—it has a marvelous effect. The mantra acts in to cure by just the assent to health right way, in this way and in no other. And after a while everything is put back in order. And simultaneously, of course, the refusal precise knowledge of assent what lies behind the disorder and what I must do to set it right comes to me. But quite apart from this, the suggestions that bring or prolong its oppositemantra acts directly upon the pain itself. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3101/illnessjune-and4-health1960#p4</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.depression And it is the worst of Grace alone that cures. The medicines only give a faith to the body. That is all illnesses and we must reject it with as much energy as we use to get rid of a disease.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1415/depressionpeace-and-quiet-faith-and-surrender#p10</ref>

It ...the knowledge of the 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 the 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 one's pain, think as little as possible and above all not be done easily only when concentrated on it, not to pay 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 mind refuses any longer mistake one always makes: to believe in think, be there, attentive, awaiting the sign of pain; then naturally it comes, it comes increased by the concentration of the suggestions or accept attention given to it. That is why, when one is not well the ideas best thing to do is to read or feelings that start have something read, you see; it depends on the circlecondition one is in. But if one can turn one's attention away, one no longer suffers. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3007/the-emergence-or-coming-forward-of27-theapril-psychic1955#p45p16</ref>

By suggestion [of illness] When one has a very bad toothache (I do don't know if you have a toothache sometimes or not mean merely thoughts or words; 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. When the hypnotist says" And one cuts, cuts it like this ("Sleepgesture"), cuts the connection, it is a suggestion; but when he says nothing but only puts his silent will to convey sleep or makes movements doesn't transmit again. Naturally you must think of his hands over something else. If afterwards you start saying, "Do I still have the face, that also is a suggestionpain?... " <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3107/illness11-andmay-health1955#p23p44</ref>

...your belief in phenomena of self-identification. Only, they are involuntary. And this is also one of the sanitary precautions you take helps them methods used today to workcure nervous diseases. For your thought 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 istold to sit in front of an aquarium, for instance—an aquarium, that's very lovely, isn't it?—before an aquarium with pretty little fish in it, goldfish; just to sit there, settle down in an easy-chair and try not to think of anything (particularly not of his troubles) and look at the fish. So he looks at the fish, moving around, "Now I am disinfected coming and safe"going, swimming, gliding, turning, meeting, crossing, chasing one another indefinitely, and to also the water flowing slowly and the passing fish. After a while he lives the life of fishes: he comes and goes, swims, glides, plays. And at the end of the hour his nerves are in a perfect state and he is completely restful!But the condition is that extent it makes you safeone must not think of one's troubles, simply watch the fish. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0305/1912-mayaugust-19291953#p16p18,p19</ref>

It 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 the things which makes you 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 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 see the body (you know the phenomenon, seeing one's body when one is outside? This can be done at will, going out of one's body and remaining just above it), the body is stretched out on a bed, a bench, on the ground, anywhere; you are stretched just above it and from there, consciously, you pull the Force from above, and if you are used to doing it, if your aspiration is always better strong enough, you get the answer; and then, from there, taking care not to sayre-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, "I will now have no more because the body is quite upset by the illness", it attracts is not receptive, it is curled up), you push them gently, gently, quietly, without nervousness, very peacefully, into the attention of these malevolent powers body. But you must not be disturbed by anyone. If someone comes along, sees you stretched out and they immediately want shakes you, it is extremely dangerous. You must do this in quiet conditions, ask people not to prove that disturb you or better shut yourself up where they can still '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 bodyitself. 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 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 the same way. There was a case of cholera which was healed like that. The cholera had just been caught, had entered, but was not yet lodged; it was completely cured. Simply Consequently, when they comeI 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 one is helped... In fact, there is a much easier method, reject themit is to call for help.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/04/31/illness-andmarch-health1951#p48p23</ref>

...You thought for months perhaps or even for years, you thought you get were completely rid of a queer sick feeling insidecertain kind of illness which you suffered from, a cold in the backand you no longer paid any attention, a little uneasiness,...and suddenly one day it returns as though the general harmony it had been disturbed. Then you must concentrate all never gone; it springs up again from the more subconscient and unless one enters into this subconscient and with a great strength of will keep the faith changes things there, that nothing can do you harmis, nothing can touch you. This suffices, you can throw off unless one changes the subconscient into the illness at that moment. But you must do this immediately ...you must not wait five minutesconscient, it must be done at once... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p22</ref> <center>~</center> ..always happens like this.if And the vital mind withdraws its consent, refuses method is to be dominated by change the habitual suggestions and subconscient into the habitual movements, these[the] recurrences of depression and despair can be made soon to cease...It can be done easily only when the mind refuses any longer conscient—if each thing that rises to believe in the suggestions or accept the ideas or feelings surface becomes conscious, at that start the circlemoment it must be changed. <ref>httpThere is a more direct method still://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-emergence-or-coming-forward-of-the-psychic#p45</ref> <center>~</center> These auto-suggestions [of being restored it is to good health]—it is really faith in a mental form—act both on the subliminal and enter the subconscient. In the subliminal they set in action the powers of the inner beingone's full consciousness and work there, but this is difficult...in the subconscient they silence or block the suggestions of death and illness… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3107/illness11-andmay-health1955#p37p7</ref> ==Having Will of Health==

=== 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 potent thought 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 of health replaces its faith disappear as easily as it has come, and one can cure oneself in illness and its consent a few seconds—if one knows how to illness..do that, one gets wonderful results.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2205/the-ascent23-towardsdecember-supermind1953#p23p36</ref>

You must have These auto-suggestions [''of being restored to good health'']—it is really faith in a very strong 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 not 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 be illcombat the same things (adverse suggestions) in the mind, vital, body consciousness. This Where all this is completely done or with some completeness, the first conditioneffects can be very remarkable. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0731/11illness-mayand-1955health#p11p37</ref>

Do not love your ill health 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—with luck, of course, as is shown by the case of the woman operated on unsuccessfully for cancer, but the doctors lied and the ill health will leave youtold her it had succeeded. Result, cancer symptoms all ceased and she died many years afterwards of another illness altogether. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1531/willspecific-illnesses-ailments-and-toother-conquerphysical-illnessproblems#p4p2</ref>

Wake up in yourself One must be conscious, conscious of the working of one's organs, aware of the one that does not behave very well, telling it immediately what is to be done to set itself right. What is needed (I shall explain it to you later on) is to give them a will lesson as one does to conquerlittle children. Not a mere will 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 mind but a will in work is to be done, it is the very cells of other way! Suppose for example, your body. Without 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 can't do anything..take in long, very regular rhythmic breaths, that is, the lung becomes the mentor of the heart and teaches it how to work properly. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1505/will-to22-conquerjuly-illness1953#p1p36</ref>

...the body consciousness through old habit of consciousness admits the force of illness...To get rid of that one must awaken a will and consciousness in the body itself that refuses to allow these things to impose themselves upon it… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p54</ref> =How to Deal with Illness?= ''Q: What to do about illness?'' A: Be passively confident: let me do it and it is done.’<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the-divine-grace#p8</ref> ...whenever I had an illness...I had a trust, a complete assurance that it had no reality....every time a blow came, I would tell my body, "But what's the use of being ill since you'll just have to get well!" ...And it faded away only little by little...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/october-10-1964#p40</ref> When the disease came back, I said to myself, 'Very well, this means it must be dealt with in a new way.'<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/march-7-1961#p10</ref> It [the descent of the higher consciousness into the most physical]...becomes more possible to control the functionings of the body and set right anything that is wrong, to deal with illness and pain etc. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/descent-and-the-lower-nature#p26</ref> ...Once the illness has got in, it [the body] can fight and overcome it...But this implies only a defensive power, the power to react against an invading enemy—it is not true freedom. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/october-17-1957#p3</ref> ...But sick people... when I tell them, "Be sincere," I know what I mean: if they REALLY want the Divine, all particularly noticeable that must stop. That's all... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/may-8-1965#p41</ref>...the method is digestive functions are extremely sensitive to change the subconscient into the conscient—if each thing that rises to the surface becomes conscious, at an attitude that moment it must be changed. There is a more direct method still: it is to enter the subconscient in one's full consciousness and work there...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/11-may-1955#p7</ref> ...when there is an illness ...automatically the cells forget ...their sadhana and everything, and it is only slowly when you get out of the illness that the cells begin to remember...my ambition was that the cells should remember when being ill...The first time that the cells rememberedcritical, ohbitter, I was very happy. But now,...as soon as the disorder comes, the cells first...got a little anxious: "Oh, we are so bad that we are still catching illnesses"—that was a period; and then, afterwards there was the impression: "Oh, You want to teach us a lesson, we have something to learn"—that was already much better: a kind of eagerness. And now there is an intense joy and a kind of power; a power that comes, a power of aspiration and a power full of realization that comes with the sense: "We are winning a victory, we are winning a new victory...."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/july-7-1965#p1</ref> ...the last stage is that the body should forget it has been ill; that's very important.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/october-10-1964#p27</ref> ...You must put a strong will for getting rid of your illness and you must remain quiet and unperturbed by the results. The two are not contradictory. One should accompany the other… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/will-, to-conquer-illness#p6</ref> ...a positive silence, which is at the same time a complete immobility—that's very good as an antidote to disorder... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/august-7-1963#p27</ref> ..sour judgment.Nothing disturbs the most difficult from the yogic point functioning of view is toothache, because it is very close to the brain….Usually in a tooth it is the nerve which has been attacked by the caries, the disease, and which begins to protest with all its strength. So, if you succeed in establishing...immobility, you prevent it from vibrating, you prevent it from protesting… if you do it fairly constantly, with sufficient perseverance, the sick nerve will die and you will not suffer at all any digestion more. Because it was than that which was suffering and when it is dead it does not suffer any longer. Try...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p23</ref> ...And it is possible even to turn the pains of illness like any other pain into a form of pleasure; for pain and pleasure are both of them degradations of an original Ananda and can be reduced into the terms of each other or else sublimated into their original principle of Ananda… <ref>httpvicious circle://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p58</ref> Suppose that as a result of some illness or other, there is some sort of pain at a precise spot...First point: do not stress the pain...Second point... draw the peace into yourself and bring it down into more the solar plexus...and from there direct it very calmly...persistently, towards the place where the pain digestive function is..., and fix it there...This is not always enough...But if by widening this movement you can add a sort of mental formation...that the only reality is the divine Reality...bring into the cells of the body the consciousness of this sole Reality,...and trusting surrender to the Grace, then I am sure...your suffering will disappear… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/4-july-1956#p21</ref> These [There] are phenomena of self-identification. Only, they are involuntary... When someone cannot sleep ...his nerves are ill and weakened by excessive agitationdisturbed, he is told to sit in front of an aquarium... and look at the fish. So he looks at the fish, moving around, coming and going, ...After a while he lives the life of fishes: he comes and goes, swims, glides, plays. And at the end of the hour his nerves are in a perfect state and he is completely restful! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/12-august-1953#p18</ref> ==Calling in the Divine Force== Most of them [illnesses] can be got rid of almost at once by faith and calling in the force. Those that are chronic are more difficultunkind you become, but they too can be got rid of by the same means if persistently used. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p44</ref>...with the call, the concentration and the response ... [the disorder is dissolved]. It's almost a surrender,... the damaged spot opens to the Influencecritical,...(gesture like a flower opening out),...unconditionally—that is the most potent gesture.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/december-20-1967#p25</ref> ''Q:When I am sympathetic dissatisfied with a sick person my body begins to feel the symptoms of his disease...'' A:The best way is to call for the Divine Presence of Truth life and Harmony, to replace the vibrations of disorder and confusion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/general#p28</ref> ...if you have a pain somewhere... it corresponds to something within,... the contact with the true Force puts things back in order... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-28-1970#p23</ref> The pains in the body come from the same source as the trouble in the vital nature; ... Remain always quiet and persist in opening yourselfpeople. The Force that releases So you from the vital trouble, can also remove the disturbance in the nervous part and the physical body… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p93</ref> The only thing I can suggest about diseases is to call down peace. Keep the mind away from the body by whatever means... It is in this state that the Grace acts't find any way out. And it there is the Grace alone that cures... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/peace-and-quiet-faith-and-surrender#p10</ref> ...only one used the[uses the mind]... to make favourable formations—... to give confidence to the body, to tell it that it is just a passing disturbance ...and if it enters a real state of receptivity, the disorder will disappear as easily as it has come, and one can cure oneself in a few seconds—if one knows how to do that, one gets wonderful results. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/23-december-1953#p36</ref> ==Overcoming Fear== Not be afraid of falling ill! That's what. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/october-22-1966#p4</ref> 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 deliberately drop this fear... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p10</ref> ...as soon as one begins to feel afraid of something [one] is to think of the Divine and then snuggle in his arms or at his feet and leave him entirely responsible for everything that happens, withinattitude, outside, everywhere—and immediately the fear disappears... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/14-october-1953#p36</ref> ...the body can bear much more than we think, if no fear or anxiety is added to the pain. If we eliminate the mental factor, the body, left absolutely forbid yourself to itself, has neither fear nor apprehension nor anxiety about what is going to happen—no anguish—and it can bear a great deal.  [Based on Aphorism<93> Pain is the touch of our Mother teaching us how to hear and grow in rapture. She has tree stages of her schooling, endurance first, next equality of soul, last ecstasy.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-93#p3</ref> 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 itimpose upon yourself, for the cells of the body are afraid of everything that is unpleasant, painful,...the cells of the body[they] become anxious, they don't like to be uncomfortable. And then, to overcome that, the by constant self-control of a conscious will is necessary...It is this kind of trembling of material, physical fear in the cells of the body which aggravates all illnesses.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p6</ref> But you mustn't be afraid. Neither afraid of falling ill, nor of becoming imbecile, nor even... of dying—you must be like this (vast and quiet gesture, like the sea). <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/13/may-17-1972#p40</ref> ==Practicing Indifferent Detachment== The physical mind...makes use of the nervous substance; if we withdraw it from the nervous substance, we no longer feel anything, for that's what gives us the perception of sensation....We know something is wrong, but we no longer suffer from it...this kind of indifferent detachment is the ESSENTIAL condition for the establishment of true Harmony in the most material Matter—the most external, physical Matter This is the logical consequence... on the cause of illnesses and how to overcome them.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/january-31-1961#p14</ref> ...detachment of the mind must be strengthened by a certain deliberate attitude of indifference to the things of the body; we must not care essentially about its ...health or ill-health,...This does not mean that we shall not keep the body in right order so far as we can; we have not to fall into violent asceticisms or a positive neglect of the physical frame. But we have not either to be affected in mind by...discomfort or ill-health or attach the importance which the physical and vital man attaches to the things of the body... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p2</ref> One step towards it[illness] is to get the inner consciousness separate from the body—to feel that it is not you who are ill but it is only something taking place in the body and not affecting your consciousness. It is then possible to see this separate body consciousness, what it feels, what are its reactions to things, how it works. One can then act on it to change its consciousness and reactions. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-andall-health#p54</ref> Only, when one is not very much coddled, when one has a little endurance and decides within himself not to pay too much attention, quite remarkably the pain diminishes… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p21</ref> comprehending kindness...the knowledge of the power to cut the connection between the suffering part and the recording brain. ...all this calls for an occult power or a training...without going so far, there is one thing that one can Just try to do: it is not to concentrate on one's pain,...But[and] if one can turn one's attention away, one no longer suffers. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/27-april-1955#p16</ref> ==Re-establishing Harmony== So there are two things you have to do when you have discovered the disorder, big or small—the disharmony. ...the first thing to do is to quieten oneself, bring peace, calm, ... Afterwards you will see what is the cause of the disorder...and through the pressure of light and knowledge and spiritual force you re-establish the harmony...if it does not offer any obstinate resistance, you can be cured in a few seconds.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p58</ref> One must be conscious, conscious of the working of one's organs,...When they begin indulging in unhealthy fancies...you must tell them: no, it is not like that the work is to be done, it is the other way! Suppose for example, your heart begins to throb madly; then you must make it calm, you tell it that this is not the way to behave, and at the same time (solely to help it) you take in long, very regular rhythmic breaths, that is, the lung becomes the mentor of the heart and teaches it how to work properlyfeel much better... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p36</ref> The particular place in the body affected by an illness is an index to the nature of the inner disharmony that has taken place. It points to the origin,... It indicates the treatment and the cure. If one could... find out what has been unreceptive, open that part and put the force and the light there, it would be possible to re-establish in a moment the harmony that has been disturbed and the illness would immediately go. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p8</ref> ...the intervention of the Vibration of Harmony into the vibration of Disorder, allowing [allows] Disorder to cease.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/march-25-1964#p34</ref> ...we think the body is in good health, that it's balanced, and that "something is introduced from outside, which causes you to fall ill," but it's not like that! We are ALWAYS off balance, the body is always off balance... and it is something else, above, a Will or a Consciousness, that holds it up and makes it work. So if we can call on...that Will for Harmony—and if we can have ...that [the] Flame of aspiration, and make contact, we emerge from so-called illness… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/july-10-1965#p6</ref> ==Restoring Order== ...if order is restored at the center of disorder, everything follows naturally, without your paying it any special attention.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/september-26-1964bhikkhu#p63</ref> That [The] intrusion of Disorder makes itself felt everywhere, it has repercussions everywhere...if you are able to bring to the attacked spot the true Vibration—the Vibration of Order and Harmony—and you stop the Disorder... all the other things are put back in order, as if automatically.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/september-26-1964#p57</ref> If you organise everything—your feelings, your thoughts, your impulses, etc,—around the psychic centre which is the inner light, you will see that all inner disorder will change into a luminous order.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/15-january-1951#p5</ref> ...the body itself awakening in its cells, a freedom of the cells themselves, an absolutely new vibration that sets disorders right—even disorders that existed prior to the supramental manifestation.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/october-17-1957#p7</ref> ...the habit of disease can be...minimised and gradually eliminated and in the meantime the power of the mind to set right the disorders of the body whether by conscious manipulation of vital force or by simple mental fiat will immensely increase... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p5p25</ref>

Human beings don't know how to keep energy.When something happens—an accident or an illness, for example—and they ask for help, a double or a triple dose of energy is sent.If they happen to be receptive, they receive it.someone who This energy is ill given for two reasons: to restore order out of the disorder caused by the accident or illness, and BELIEVES in to impart a transformative force to repair or change the reality source of his the illness; or accident.But instead of using the effect energy in this way, they 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 Action energy was not sent to be wasted like that but for an inner use, they feel absolutely flat, run down. And it is lessened in proportion universal. They don't know, they do not know how to make this movement—to turn within, to use the energy (not to keep it, it doesn't keep), to use it to repair the damage done to the body and to go deeply within to find the reason for this accident or illness, and there to his wrong beliefchange it by an aspiration, an inner transformation.Instead of that, right away they start speaking, stirring about, reacting, doing this or that! <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agenda/1301/junejuly-2421-19721958#p16p1,p2</ref>

I know cases,... of people who but when you are sick: if they follow the routine of the doctor and medicines and treatment able to be truly still, there is ALWAYS a little light—a warm little light, very bright and diseasewonderfully still, they get wellbehind; as if by some mischance (!) they call on the Force and I apply itwere saying, "You only have to will." Then the more body's cells panic: "Will, how? How can I apply? The illness is on me, the more terrified they are! They feel absolutely unexpected phenomena I am overcome. How can I will? It's AN ILLNESS"—the whole drama (and they are terrifiedthat wasn't in sleep: I was completely awake, it was this morning), it's "an illness...What" Then something with a general wisdom says, "Calm down, calm down, (laughing) don's happening t remain attached to meyour illness!" Calm down. As if it were absolutely catastrophicyou wished to be ill! Calm down. The minute the Force comes and " So they feel just consent—"consent," you know, like a bit of itchild 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. they resistNot the next minute: a few seconds and it's over.Then the cells remember: "But how come? I had a pain here.. they become absolutely restless."—pop! It all comes back..That is, And the whole system spends its time rejecting and rejecting all drama unfolds like that comes, constantly. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/novemberoctober-2814-1964#p12p60</ref>

...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 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. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/july-21-1958#p2~</refcenter>

==Unhealthy Curiosity== ...there is the sense of an established harmony among the cells,..increasingly established among the cells, which represents the right functioning, whatever that may be: it's no longer a question of a stomach or a heart or this or that. And the slightest thing that comes and disturbs that harmony is VERY painful, but at the same time there is the knowledge of what to do to reestablish the harmony instantly;..and if the harmony is reestablished, the functioning isn't affected. But if out of curiosity,...for instance (it's a mental illness in humans), you start asking yourself, "What's that? What effect will it have? What's going to happen?" (what the body calls "the desire to learn"),...if you are unlucky enough to be that way, you can be sure ("laughing") that [then] you'll have something very unpleasant ..which, according to the doctor (according to ignoramuses), becomes an illness or disrupts the body's functioning.While if you don't have that unhealthy curiosity ...and, on the contrary, will the harmony not to be disrupted, you only have to, we could say poetically, bring one drop of the Lord on the troubled spot for everything to be fine again.

...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 =More on me, I am overcome. How can I will? It's AN ILLNESS"—Then something with a general wisdom says, "Calm down...don't remain attached to your illness!..So they consent...They try—immediately, that light comes again...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.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/october-14-1964#p60</ref>Illness=

=How There is no such thing as an incurable illness in reality—for what the doctors call such is only an illness for which they have not yet been able to Cure Illness?=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 fact that the day before one was in a state of depression. Or perhaps one is very unhappy, dissatisfied, one finds everything very bad, and the next day one gets a cold in the head.... Everyone must make his own observations. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p4</ref>

Have faith. There is no disease which cannot be cured by the Divine Grace<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the-divine-grace#p3~</refcenter>

Peace and stillness Aphorism<199>Disease will always return to the body if the soul is flawed; for the sins of the mind are the great remedy for diseasesecret cause of the sins of the body.When we can bring peace So too poverty and trouble will always return on man in our cellssociety, we are curedso long as the mind of the race is subjected to egoism.<ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwm/1510/peaceaphorism-and-quiet-faith-and199-surrender200#p26p1</ref>

A:Cure meWhen people are ill and get well quickly, O Motherthey are full of gratitude; but never do they think of being grateful when they are well; and yet that is a much greater miracle!<ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwm/1505/cure-by-the23-divinedecember-grace1953#p10p52</ref>

I don't want you to be ill and always I am with you to cure you—but you too must want to be cured. Do not torment yourself and always nestle in my arms so as to receive my love and force.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/23-september-1934#p2~</refcenter>

Ultimately ...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 put it quite tritelyhave the LEAST disorder in the body, one can cure and not only in the body, but IN ALL THE SURROUNDING MATTER. So if the disease isn't necessary to the individual's developmentthat is established in a permanent way, there CAN NO LONGER be illness it is impossible.There can no longer be accidents, there can no longer be illness, there can no longer be disorders, and everything should harmonize (probably in a progressive way) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/1001/decemberjune-136-19691958#p14p10</ref>

If this present difficulty is useful ... (it's the body addressing the Lord)..for Your Work—so be it..It [The body] doesn't ask to be cured of the illness! It doesn't ask, it is ready; 'All right,' it says. 'As long as I can keep going, I will keep going. As long as I can last, I will last. But that's not what I'm asking for: I am asking to be cured of my stupidity.' I believe this is what...gives it the necessary endurance. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/february-7-1961#p24~</refcenter>

...in order health or illness is a choice (to be able 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 cure an illnessthe general functioning of the physical substance, one must find out its causeof the body, and having illnesses you get cured of or not its microbe, depending on... other laws than physical laws. But there is every minute—every minute—the possibility to choose the true consciousness, or there is, yes, a disorder or disequilibrium. It's something which is unable to follow the movement of progressive harmony, or sometimes even which doesn't want to. I am talking about cells and groups of cells.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0509/22june-july15-19531968#p42p14,p15</ref>

...There are two ways of curing an illness spiritually. One...the person is receptive; the force of consciousness is put upon the affected part and its pressure restores order<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p11~</refcenter>

In other casesDisease is needlessly prolonged and ends in death oftener than is inevitable, if because the body lacks receptivity... one sees mind of the inner correspondence with patient supports and dwells upon the psychological state which has brought about the illness and acts on thatdisease of his body. [Aphorism<386>] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0410/31aphorism-386-387-march388-1951389#p12p1</ref>

When you are completely cured, it will be an indication of some inner progress.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/will-to-conquer-illness#p6</ref> 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> ...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> ...the cure for all physical disorders lies in the cells becoming convinced—conscious and convinced—that they are an expression of the Divine, or even that they are divine in their essence.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/12/october-16-1971#p6</ref> ...most disorders of the body are connected,...If one can strike at their psycho-physical root, one can cure even without knowing the pathological whole of the matter and working through the symptoms is a possibility... <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> ...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> ...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> ...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> ...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> ...congenital diseases can be cured only by an integral transformation of the body itself and we have not reached yet that period in the sadhana; otherwise it is only a so-called "miraculous cure" that can take place and that kind of "miracle" can happen only as the result of an absolute sincerity in the consecration to the Divine and an unshakable faith in the Divine Grace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the-divine-grace#p13</ref> ==Changing the Attitude== These[the] maladies are a creation of the pressure of hostile forces;...The only way is to remain quiet, dissociate yourself and refuse to accept it or make much of it, allow the calm and strength that the Mother has been putting around you to enter your mind and permeate your nervous system...The cure may take time because your nervous system has been long subjected to these influences and, when they are evicted, they return with violence to re-establish their hold. But if you can acquire and keep patience and fortitude and the right consciousness and right attitude with regard to these things, the hold they have will progressively disappear.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/accidents-possession-madness#p15</ref> The attitude in the cells changes—not the disorder (!), the disorder changes only because of the cells' reaction, that's what makes it change; but it recurs with clockwork regularity—that's its job. It is the way it's received by the cells, their reaction to it, that brings about the change.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/march-30-1963#p19</ref> ...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> ...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> ...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> When something happens—an accident or an illness,...they ask for help, a double or a triple dose of energy is sent. If they happen to be receptive, they receive it. This energy is given for two reasons: to restore order out of the disorder caused by the accident or illness, and to impart a transformative force to repair or change the source of the illness or accident.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/july-21-1958#p1</ref> ...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> 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> ...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> 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>...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> 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.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-404-405-406-407#p1</ref> 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-body#p15~</refcenter>

The absolute immunity can only come with 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 path to make progress. I knew people who, whenever they fell ill, took that as a proof of the supramental changeDivine Grace to help them to progress. …in They told themselves: it is a supramentalised body immunity good sign, I am going to find out the cause of my illness and I shall make the necessary progress. I knew a few of this kind and they moved on magnificently. There are others, on the contrary, who, far from making use of the thing, let themselves fall flat on the ground. So much the worse for them. But the true attitude when one is ill, is to say: "There is something that is not all right; I am going to see what it is." You must never think that the Divine has purposely sent an illness , for that would truly be automatic, inherent in its new nature. a very wicked Divine!<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/illness22-andjuly-health1953#p52p2</ref>

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