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The Process of Illness Invading the Body and the Means to Reject It · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The vital envelope sends us signals if we are able to
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  perceive them. Sometimes we begin to feel run
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  down, tired, exhausted, or stressed out.
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  We may begin to feel a little feverish or feel the beginning
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  of what we might call a cold or sore throat occurring.
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  This is prior to the full expression of an illness and may
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  just be the feeling or sense the individual receives.
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  This is an early warning signal that something is trying to
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  breakthrough the first line of defence of the body and manifest
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  an illness. Recently it was reported that an
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  individual started feeling specific, intense itching along
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  a band of the trunk of the body which corresponded to the
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  appearance of shingles. No rash had broken out, but the
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  symptomology followed that of the outbreak of shingles and the
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  individual confirmed both that he had had a case of chicken pox
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  as a child precursor with the same virus that stays in the
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  body, and that he had contacted A physician who reviewed the
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  case and confirmed that it was a case of shingles.
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  And he should expect the rash to appear within three to four days
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  of that time. The interesting part of the
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  story is that the physician prescribed a dietary supplement
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  that he indicated had an antiviral action and within a
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  few days not only were the initial symptoms relieved, but
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  the entire outbreak of the full blown case of shingles was
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  avoided. The physician noted that the
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  individual caught the symptoms early enough that apparently the
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  disease condition was thrown out.
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  We see several things here. First, the observation, at a
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  subtle level, of symptoms that foreshadow an attack upon the
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  physical body. Second, the exercise of the will
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  of rejection. Third, the use of a dietary
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  supplement to support the mental vital and physical belief in the
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  rejection. 4th The power of belief to influence the course
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  of disease under various circumstances.
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  This last is actually supportive of the known placebo effect,
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  where an individual is given a substance he believes to be
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  effective, even if it is purely inert.
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  And this belief effectuates a cure or remission in over 30% of
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  the cases without use of any actual medicine, whether one
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  calls the mechanism the placebo effect or faith healing or auto
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  suggestion. One way or the other, if the
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  mind and the will can bring a force directly to the body, and
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  the body accepts this force, it can overcome or throw off the
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  advent of disease. Additional means of rejection
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  include the use of hypnotic suggestion, or in the case of
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  those who have strong devotion and openness and receptivity to
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  the force of the deity, guru or guide, who then can enhance the
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  individual's own force with their support.
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  Sri Aurobindo writes quote Attacks of illness are attacks
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  of the lower nature or of adverse forces taking advantage
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  of some weakness, opening, or response in the nature.
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  Like all other things that come and have got to be thrown away,
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  they come from outside. If one can feel them so coming
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  and get the strength and the habit to throw them away before
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  they can enter the body, then one can remain free from illness
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  even when the attack seems to rise from within.
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  That means only that it has not been detected before it entered
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  the subconscient. Once in the subconscient, the
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  force that brought it rouses it from there sooner or later, and
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  it invades the system. When you feel it just after it
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  has entered it is because though it came direct and not through
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  the subconscious, yet you could not detect it while it was still
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  outside. Very often it arrives like that
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  frontally or more often tangentially from the side
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  direct, forcing its way through the subtle vital envelope which
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  was our main armor of defence. But it can be stopped there in
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  the envelope itself, before it penetrates the material body.
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  Then one may feel some effect, for example feverishness or a
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  tendency to cold, but there is not the full invasion of the
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  malady. If it can be stopped earlier, or
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  if the vital envelope of itself resists and remains strong,
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  vigorous and intact, then there is no illness.
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  The attack produces no physical effect and leaves no traces.
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  End Quote Reference Shrioro, Bindo and the Mother, The Hidden
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  Forces of Life, Chapter 3, Hidden Forces around pages 74 to
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  75.