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Medicine, and Beyond, in the Treatment of Bodily Illness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  It is easy, in fact, quite normal for an individual to turn
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  toward Medical Treatments. Once an illness presents itself.
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  The mindset of the entire Society is based on the idea
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  that illness must be defeated and that medicine through its
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  long history as increasingly gain powers and tools to defeat
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  illnesses. With the Advent of antibiotics
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  antiviral medicines, vaccines Western medicine has shown
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  remarkable ability to address scourges that once ravaged
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  Humanity. Such as smallpox the Bubonic
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  plague and polio Vaccination results for what are termed
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  childhood diseases, such as measles mumps rubella.
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  Clearly have reduced the severity and incidents of such
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  diseases. Wherever these vaccines have
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  been deployed tetanus. And rabies have also been
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  brought under substantial control with prompt vaccine
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  treatment. It is not just Western medicine
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  that has shown a remarkable ability to respond to illness.
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  Ayurveda Saddam medicine, Chinese traditional medicine,
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  shamanic medicines herbal cures abound and the profession of
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  medicine in whatever form. It is practice has gained a
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  reputation and substantial credibility.
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  Even acute condition, such as simple headache, in digestion,
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  Etc. Have seen the rise of medicines
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  to take the pain away. Thus, we are inculcated in the
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  idea that any bodily imbalance or difficulty, any illness
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  should resort to the use of medicines, as a first line of
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  action to quickly and effectively treat and respond to
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  pain and disease. Of course, medicine has not
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  solved all possible conditions, and has a less than Stellar
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  performance on long-term. Chronic metabolic conditions,
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  but they promised us that these conditions will come under
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  control in the future. It is difficult.
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  Therefore to overcome the suggestion that lies deeply
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  embedded in our being, that medicine is the first and major,
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  Curative power, and that we should turn to it at need SRI
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  aurobindo in his own experience, relates to change that took
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  place in his own outlook on the matter and the results he
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  obtained through that change of view.
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  He provides us courage to try a different approach when
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  appropriate for us in dealing, with the pains and acute
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  illnesses. That arise without negating the
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  potential need or benefit of medicines under circumstances
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  where the practitioner has not yet achieved full and complete
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  freedom and Mastery over the body and its energies and immune
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  powers. We may look upon the immune
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  system as we do with building muscle, regular practice and
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  effort in Reliance upon the innate capacities of the body,
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  will eventually build up that strength and regular practice
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  and effort. In Reliance upon the Divine
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  force in the universe to provide a cure and restore and maintain
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  Harmony in the body, will eventually allow us to
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  experience that force in our lives and thereby find the True,
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  Curative agent behind all the medicines SRI aurobindo notes
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  quote for nearly 40 years behind the holy good.
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  I was weekly in Constitution. I suffered constantly from the
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  smaller and the greater ailments and mistook this curse for a
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  burden that nature had laid upon me when I renounce the aid of
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  medicines, then they began to depart from me, like,
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  disappointed parasites. Then only I understood what a
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  mighty force was the Natural Health within me and how much
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  mightier yet the will and Faith exceeding, mind and which God
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  meant to be the Divine support of our life in this body.
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  And quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother living
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  within the yoga approach to psychological health and growth,
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  disturbances of the body, and physical Consciousness, faith
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  and suggestion Pages 98 to 101.