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Developing the Power to Remove Illnesses from the Physical Body · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  An illness is a vibrational pattern that impacts the body
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  and its normal operations. If one does not succeed in
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  rejecting it before it breaks through the protective vital
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  sheath, and then if one fails to prevent it from taking hold at
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  all in the physical body, one is left with having to deal with
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  the illness that is active in the body and vibrating the
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  physical substance. As we see with all physical
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  forms, they attain a type of solidity that makes them less
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  malleable and able to be dealt with, and the physical body
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  shares some of that attribute. Thus, an illness, once it gets
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  into the body, requires substantially more effort to
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  remove than if it could be kept out in the first place.
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  It is, however, not impossible to do this.
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  The body has its own defense mechanisms, including the entire
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  action of the immune system to destroy invading organisms or
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  slow down or prevent their reproduction, and the setup of
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  the corresponding vibrational patterns.
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  Many of the symptoms we experience are due to the action
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  of the immune system when it comes up against the victor that
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  it is trying to take control, the body.
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  Certain actions can help strengthen the body's response
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  to the illness, including the use of a will that can
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  strengthen both the immune response and the vital sheath.
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  Acute illnesses generally can be dealt with more easily, as they
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  are by definition not as deeply embedded or in control of the
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  body. Once an illness becomes chronic,
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  there's an implication that it has begun to change the physical
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  substance and embedded itself more deeply, thus making it more
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  difficult but not impossible to remove.
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  There's a qualitative difference when it comes to physical
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  changes, particularly destructive changes that take
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  place either from an embedded disease or due to either
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  congenital or acquired infirmities that change the body
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  itself. Similarly, a disease that has
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  become entrenched in the being can bring about massive physical
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  changes that may remain even if the disease is eventually
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  dispelled. At our current stage of
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  evolutionary development, we are unable, for instance, to regrow
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  limbs or organs that have suffered partial destruction.
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  The progression of the disease may be stopped, but the
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  restoration of destroyed tissue may not be possible for most.
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  There is of course research ongoing, for instance about
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  regrowing lost teeth or limbs, both of which are possible in
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  certain species in the animal Kingdom, and for which there may
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  be genes that are simply inactivated in the human DNA.
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  Should we at some point gain access to these genes and be
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  able to activate them, restoration of parts of the
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  physical body could indeed become a reality.
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  Similarly, work with stem cells seems to indicate that entire
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  organs could be regrown at some point.
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  Again, this is a potential future line of development to
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  address the destruction of tissue that can occur if a
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  disease becomes chronic and destructive of physical
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  substance, or in the case of either physical trauma or
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  congenital issues. There is thus a hierarchy of
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  action in the case of dealing with physical diseases.
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  First, the will to not allow the vector to penetrate the vital
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  sheath is the first line of action, and this can be done as
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  the awareness and the strengthening of the vitality
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  and the aura develop. Second is to reduce or eliminate
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  acute conditions that have reached the body.
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  Third is to develop the ability to remove chronic conditions.
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  Finally, there is the potentiality to reverse physical
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  damage at some point, whether with the help of biotechnology
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  or through some kind of inner transformative practice that we
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  have generally not yet developed, Srioro Bindu observes
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  quote. Certainly one can act from
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  within on an illness and cure it.
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  Only it is not always easy. As there is much resistance in
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  matter, a resistance of inertia and untiring persistence is
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  necessary. At first one may fail altogether
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  and the symptoms increase, but gradually the control of the
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  body or of a particular illness becomes stronger again.
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  To cure an occasional attack of illness by inner means is
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  comparatively easy. To make the body immune from it
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  in future is more difficult. A chronic malady is harder to
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  deal with, more reluctant to disappear entirely, than an
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  occasional disturbance of the body, so long as the control of
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  the body is imperfect. There are all these and other
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  imperfections and difficulties in the use of the inner force.
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  If you can succeed by the interaction in preventing
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  increase, even that is something.
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  You have then by abhyasa to strengthen the power till it
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  becomes able to cure. Note that so long as the power
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  is not entirely there, some aid of physical means need not be
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  altogether rejected. End Quote Reference Sri
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  Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 4,
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  Ordeals and Difficulties, pages 107 to 108.