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Immunity, Yoga-Force and the Supramental Nature · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  A question recently arose about how to become aware of the
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  subtle vital envelope that surrounds the physical body and
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  acts to protect it. One can practice quieting the
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  mind, the emotions, the vital energies and the body and just
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  feeling the sensation of the wider body until it becomes
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  vivid and constant. One can close one's eyes, sit
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  quietly, and have another individual quietly move a hand
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  toward the body, not quite touching it, and sense where it
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  is. One can begin to observe and
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  feel. When some pressure is felt, such
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  as a feeling of the beginning of a cold or other physical
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  imbalance, that pressure first touches the aura.
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  Sometimes when 1 is in a situation, there is a sudden
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  feeling of someone observing or approaching but not in the line
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  of sight. Careful observation can help 1
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  become aware of the subtle energies picked up by the aura.
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  The main thing is a quiet receptivity and practice.
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  These are simple and practical steps, but do not exhaust the
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  possibilities. The question of immunity to
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  illness, Whoever goes beyond simply becoming aware of the
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  vital envelope and applying mental and vital support to the
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  vital sheath. This represents just the first
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  step in creating true and lasting immunity.
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  But there is much more. The next step is to call in the
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  force that is activated through the practice of yoga and learn
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  how to hold it without spilling it, expanding there by the power
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  and force active in the vital nature and the physical body to
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  resist the vibrations of illness.
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  This can dramatically increase the ability to ward off illness.
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  Srioro Bindo distinguishes these things from the transformation
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  of the human nature that is expected with the Super mental
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  manifestation and the changes that brings to mind, life and
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  body, Orbindo writes. Quote.
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  All illnesses pass through the nervous or vital physical sheath
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  of the subtle consciousness and subtle body before they enter
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  the physical. If one is conscious of the
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  subtle body, or with the subtle consciousness, 1 can stop an
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  illness on its way and prevent it from entering the physical
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  body. But it may have come without
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  one's noticing, or when one is asleep, or through the
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  subconscient, or in a sudden rush.
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  When one is off 1's guard, then there's nothing to do but to
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  fight it out from a hold already gained on the body. self-defense
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  by these inner means may become so strong that the body becomes
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  practically immune, as many yogis are.
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  Still, this practically does not mean absolutely.
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  The absolute immunity can only come with the supermental
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  change, for below the supermental it is the result of
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  an action of a force among many forces and can be disturbed by a
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  disruption of the equilibrium established in the supermental.
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  It is a law of the nature. In a supermentalized body,
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  immunity from illness would be automatic, inherent in its new
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  nature. There is a difference between
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  yogic force on the mental and inferior planes and the Super
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  mental nature. What is acquired and held by the
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  yoga force in the mind and body consciousness is in the Super
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  mental inherent and exists not by achievement but by nature.
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  It is self existent and absolute.
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  End Quote Reference Srioro Bindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 5.
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  Physical Consciousness, subcontinent Sleep and Dream
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  Illness. Pages 107 to 108.