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\nIllness and Health <\/font><\/span><\/i><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>You ask me whether your illness
\ncomes from yoga. By no means − far from damaging health, yoga helps to
\nbuild up a health that is robust and unfailing. <\/span><\/p>\n

29 June 1942<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Do not forget that to succeed in our
\nyoga one must have a strong and healthy body. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>For this, the body must do exercise,
\nhave an active and regular life, work physically, eat well, and sleep well. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>It is in good health that the way
\ntowards transformation is found. <\/span><\/p>\n

18 April 1971<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>It is good to do exercises and to
\nlead a simple and hygienic life, but for the body to be truly perfect, it must
\nopen to the divine forces, it must be subject only to the divine influence, it
\nmust aspire constantly to realise the Divine. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Good health is the exterior
\nexpression of an inner harmony. We must be proud if we are in good health and
\nnot despise it. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>As yet happiness and good health are
\nnot normal conditions in this world. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>We must protect them carefully against
\nthe intrusion of their opposites.  <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 147<\/span><\/p>\n

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INNER CAUSES OF ILLNESS<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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I have been having various kinds of small
\naccidents and hurts, and I feel troubled because all my efforts to avoid them
\nseem to go in vain. What should I do? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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You need not
\ntorture yourself about these small things − they have no importance in
\nthemselves and their utility is to show us where inconscience is still to be
\nfound in our nature so that we may put light there. <\/span><\/p>\n

13 July 1937<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>You must take this illness as a sign
\nthat in spite of all your convictions, perhaps even resolutions, you have to do
\nsadhana and to add to your outer consecration in work the inner consecration of
\ndeep understanding and psychological transformation and make use of your seclusion
\nfor that purpose. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>My love and help are with you. <\/span><\/p>\n

6 April 1952<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Physical ailments are always the
\nsign of a resistance in the physical being; but with surrender to the Divine\u2019s
\nWill and a complete trust in the working of the Grace, they are bound to
\ndisappear soon. <\/span><\/p>\n

22 May 1957 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Sri Aurobindo says, <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cDisease is needlessly prolonged and
\nends in death oftener than is inevitable, because the mind of the patient
\nsupports and dwells upon the disease of the body\u201d,\u00b9 <\/span>  <\/span>and I add, <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00b9 Thoughts and
\nAphorisms<\/i>, Cent. Vol. 17, p. 126. 149<\/font><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 148<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cAn illness of the body is always
\nthe outer expression and translation of a disorder, a disharmony in the inner
\nbeing; unless this inner disorder is healed, the outer cure cannot be total and
\npermanent.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

1 October 1959<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Physical troubles always come as
\nlessons to teach equality <\/i>and to
\nreveal what in us is pure and luminous enough to remain unaffected. It is in
\nequality that one finds the remedy. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>An important point: equality does
\nnot mean indifference. <\/span><\/p>\n

11 December 1965<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The illness has come like a test and
\ngone like a purification carrying away all that was standing in the way of the
\njoy of an integral consecration. <\/span><\/p>\n

2 February 1967<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>This illness has been put upon you
\nby the hostile forces as a strong test. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>You have not met it with the proper
\nattitude. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>That is why it lingers. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Your going back to <\/span>Madras<\/span> does not ameliorate the attitude −
\non the contrary. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>You yield to a movement of fear and
\ndistrust in the Divine. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I cannot see that it will lead to
\nanything good for you. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Your illness was not a mere
\naccident. You did not give sufficient attention to the inner change, a
\npsychological change with a broadening of your consciousness. You were
\nsatisfied with  <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 149<\/span><\/p>\n

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yourself. You were
\nshut up in your small shell and did not try to make any progress. You said
\nsadhana did not interest you and you thought that the little work that you were
\ndoing was quite sufficient for you and nothing more was needed. It was this
\nattitude that took you out of my protection. I gave you a warning, but you
\nchallenged Nature by saying that nothing could touch you. All these things
\ncombined and brought your mental difficulties, weakness and illness. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>You must change. You must try to
\nfulfil the conditions of Mahasaraswati, make your work more and more perfect,
\nmake progress and try for a psychological transformation. Less than this will
\nnot help you. This is the minimum and if you try sincerely, my help will always
\nbe there. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>These days my work is going on at
\nsuch a speed that unless you make a serious effort, you will be left far behind
\nand not be able to remain with me. But if you do as I say, everything will be
\nall right.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Your illness gave
\nyou an opportunity to open your eyes towards the need for an inner change. You
\nmust take advantage of this and progress.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Things that do not
\nwant to change in your nature join together and come out in the form of
\nillness. The only thing to be done is to have a strong aspiration and a total
\nchange. Then everything will be all right. <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 150<\/span><\/p>\n

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FEAR AND ILLNESS<\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Be on your guard. There was on X a
\nformation of fear − fear of cold, fear of bad health, etc. − take
\ncare that this formation does not jump upon you; you must reject it resolutely.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

1937 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>You must not fear. Most of your
\ntroubles come from fear. In fact, ninety per cent of illnesses are the result
\nof the subconscient fear of the body. In the ordinary consciousness of the body
\nthere is a more or less hidden anxiety about the consequences of the slightest
\nphysical disturbance. It can be translated by these words of doubt about the
\nfuture: \u201cAnd what will happen?\u201d It is this anxiety that must be checked. Indeed
\nthis anxiety is a lack of confidence in the Divine\u2019s Grace, the unmistakable
\nsign that the consecration is not complete and perfect. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>As a practical means of overcoming
\nthis subconscient fear each time that something of it comes to the surface, the
\nmore enlightened part of the being must impress on the body the necessity of an
\nentire trust in the Divine\u2019s Grace, the certitude that this Grace is always
\nworking for the best in our self as well as in all, and the determination to
\nsubmit entirely and unreservedly to the Divine\u2019s Will. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The body must know and be convinced
\nthat its essence is divine and that if no obstacle is put in the way of the
\nDivine\u2019s working, nothing can harm us. This process must be steadily repeated
\nuntil all recurrence of fear is stopped. And then even if the illness succeeds
\nin making its appearance, its strength and duration will be considerably
\ndiminished until it is definitively conquered. <\/span><\/p>\n

14 October 1945<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span>Page – 151<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>When physical disorder comes, one
\nmust not be afraid; one must not run away from it, must face it with courage,
\ncalmness, confidence, with the certitude that illness is a falsehood <\/i>and that if one turns entirely, in full confidence, with
\na complete quietude to the divine grace, it will settle in these cells as it
\nestablishes itself in the depths of the being, and the cells themselves will
\nshare in the eternal Truth and Delight. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For some time I have been really worried
\nabout the skin-trouble on my legs. Please, Mother, throw this disease out of my
\nbody and the fear out of my mind. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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The real disease
\nis fear. Throw the fear away and the disease will go. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>My help is with you. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Blessings. <\/span><\/p>\n

1965 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>As for cancer, the first thing is
\nthat you should drive off all fear. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>If you want to get cured there are
\ntwo conditions. First you must be without fear, absolutely fearless, you understand,
\nand secondly you must have a complete faith in the Divine protection. These two
\nthings are essential.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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