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Dec. 14, 2024

Healing Sickness With Spiritual Force

Healing Sickness With Spiritual Force

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Powers Within, Chapter XIV Power Over Illness and Pain, pp. 115-117 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2024/12/11/healing-sickness-with-spiritual-force/

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An individual reported an
experience which at the time was

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unique to him.
He was suddenly attacked by a

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virulent disease and collapsed
on the floor.

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He was carried off to another
room in the facility where

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various individuals tried to
figure out what happened to him

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and what to do about it.
After he revived, he reported

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that he had been outside his
body, up at ceiling level,

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looking down on it, lying on the
floor with the individuals

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around him trying to revive him
as a new experience and without

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any formal training.
He did not know how to direct

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the force to cure the attack of
illness, but he was able to

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consciously observe the entire
proceeding.

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After being revived, he wound up
bedridden for some time with a

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serious case of amoebic
dysentery brought on by the

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weakening of his vital envelope
through a case of sunstroke he

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experienced just a few days
earlier during a visit to

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Oroville, back before it was
forested and shaded.

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It was only later, much later,
that he was able to learn about

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the technique the mother
describes here.

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The mother observes quote.
I have known some truly

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extraordinary instances.
If you can at the moment wait,

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take an example which is quite
concrete sunstroke.

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This upsets you considerably.
It is one of the things which

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makes you most I'll a sunstroke
upsets everything.

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It disturbs the inner functions.
It generally causes a congestion

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in the head and very high fever.
So if this has happened, if it

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has succeeded in getting through
the protection and entering you,

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well, if you can just go into a
quiet place, stretch yourself

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out flat, go out of your body
naturally, you must learn this.

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There are people who do this
spontaneously.

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For others, a long discipline is
necessary.

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Go out of your body, remain
above in a way to be able to see

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the body.
You know this phenomenon, seeing

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one's body when one is outside.
This can be done at will, going

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out of one's body and remaining
just above it.

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The body is stretched out on a
bed, a bench, on the ground,

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anywhere you are stretched just
above it.

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And from there, consciously you
pull the force from above.

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And if you are used to doing it,
if your aspiration is strong

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enough, you get the answer.
And then from there, taking care

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not to re enter your body, you
begin to push these forces into

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the body like that regularly
until you see the body receiving

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them.
For the first few moments they

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don't enter because the body is
quite upset by the illness.

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It is not receptive, it is
curled up.

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You push them gently, gently,
quietly, without nervousness,

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very peacefully into the body.
But you must not be disturbed by

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anyone.
If someone comes along, sees you

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stretched out and shakes you, it
is extremely dangerous.

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You must do this in quiet
conditions.

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Ask people not to disturb you,
or better, shut yourself up

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where they can't disturb you.
But you can concentrate slowly.

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This takes more or less time, 10
minutes, half an hour, one hour,

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2 hours.
It depends upon the seriousness

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of the disorder, which is set in
slowly from above.

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You concentrate the force until
you see that the body is

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receiving, that the force is
entering.

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The disorder is being set right
and there is a relaxation in the

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body itself.
Once that is done, you can get

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back and you are cured.
This has been done for a

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sunstroke, which is a fairly
violent thing, and also for

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typhoid fever and many other
illnesses, As for instance for a

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liver which was suddenly upset
somehow, not due to indigestion,

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but a liver which doesn't
function properly for the

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moment.
It may also be cured in the same

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way.
There was a case of cholera

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which was healed like that.
The cholera had just been

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caught, had entered, but was not
yet lodged.

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It was completely cured.
Consequently, when I say that if

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one masters the spiritual force
and knows how to use it, there

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is no malady which cannot be
cured, I don't say it just like

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that in the air.
It is said from experience with

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the thing.
Of course, you will say you

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don't know how to go out of the
body, draw the force,

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concentrate it, have all this
mastery.

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It is not very frequent, but it
is not impossible.

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And 1 can be sure that if one is
helped, in fact, there's a much

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easier method, it is to call for
help.

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But the condition in every case,
in every case, whether one does

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it oneself and depending only on
oneself, or whether one does it

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by asking someone to do it for
one, The first condition not to

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fear and to be calm.
If you begin to boil and get

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fidgety in your body, it is
finished.

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You can do nothing for
everything, to live the

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spiritual life, heal sickness,
for everything one must be calm.

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End Quote Reference Sri
Aurobindo and the Mother, Powers

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within, Chapter 14, Power over
Illness and Pain, pages 1:15 to

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1:17.