Illness, Faith, Yoga-Power and Medicines

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If we examine how illness comes
upon us and what effects it has,

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we can identify multiple
different contributing factors

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that can lead to the physical
imbalances that we call illness.

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Many of the symptoms of illness
are the result of the physical

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body actually resisting the
effect of the illness.

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Is it possible to do away with
illness?

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Is it possible to prevent
illness?

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Is it possible to heal illness?
We live in a world that is

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enamoured of the idea that
illness is caused by germs, that

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is, bacteria or viruses.
These germs proliferate and

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enter our body and start to
cause the illness, and we then

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become sick.
But the cause of illness is not

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so simple as to blame some
external factor and avoid the

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deeper insights that are part of
the complex.

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Some people rarely have ever get
sick.

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They are said to have a strong
immunity.

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Generally, these people have a
vibrant and strong vital sheath,

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which radiates an energy that
repels contrary forces.

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Germs, after all, are simply
physical carriers that create a

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vibratory pattern when they find
a receptive host.

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If the vital sheath is able to
prevent or neutralize the

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action, then the individual does
not become I'll.

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In many cases, the mind actually
weakens the vital protective

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sheath through the operation of
fear.

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We see this in the case of
epidemics or pandemics.

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People become infected with fear
and this creates gaps in the

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armor of the vital sheath that
allows the feared illness to

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enter and embed itself in the
physical frame.

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The physical body is habituated
to the idea that certain

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vibratory patterns will take
over and create the imbalances

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we recognize as illness.
It is possible for individuals

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to build up the strength of
their vital sheath to such a

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degree that illness has little
chance of passing through and

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creating the physical
vibrational pattern.

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Certain individuals, such as
dedicated practitioners of yoga

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for many years, use mantras,
pranayam, or other mechanisms to

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enhance the sheath and thereby
find that they do not become

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I'll.
Just as the mind can help create

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the environment for illness
through acceptance of fear,

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modern science shows that the
mind can also be a powerful tool

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in healing the body.
What is known as the placebo

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effect is worth examination.
An individual sick with an

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illness participates in a study.
Certain people are given

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medicines that have an active
property to tamp down the

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activity of the germs in the
creation of their vibratory

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patterns.
Other individuals are given a

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remedy that in fact has no
active force associated with it.

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Their belief in the remedy,
regardless of its actual ability

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to attack the invading germs,
has been found to cure

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individuals some 25% of the time
or more.

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If there is no active medicine,
then we have to attribute the

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healing power to the mind and
the body itself.

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Some people are able to
experience a feeling of pressure

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on their vital sheath, which
they associate with a potential

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attack of illness.
In some cases they succumb to

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the feeling and then they become
I'll.

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In other cases, however, they
resist the feeling, strengthen

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their resolve and their vital
sheath, and throw off the

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feeling before it becomes a full
blown illness.

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For some people, adding a
physical medium such as an herb

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or a tea of some sort adds to
the mental and vital resolve to

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strengthen the immune response
by convincing the body that it

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is being helped.
Many people report the

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significant benefit they receive
from the use of homeopathic

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medicines, which have no
identifiable active ingredient

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but are supposed to work solely
on the subtle vibrational level.

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1 case in particular that has
been brought to our attention

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involved an individual who was
suffering from a severe case of

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amoebic bleeding dysentery while
he was visiting India.

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He asked about a doctor and was
told the best person to see was

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the local homeopath.
He immediately visited this

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Doctor Who asked a series of
seemingly random questions, then

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prescribed a little sugar pellet
of a particular homeopathic

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remedy and advised that with 15
to 20 minutes the severe

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abdominal motions and pain would
be stopped and the body could

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then heal from the damage that
had been done in the meantime.

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In fact, the result was exactly
that strong Western medicines

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could not have done better, and
in fact were discounted as

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solutions by those in the know.
In that place Srioro Bindu

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observes quote.
Illness marks some imperfection

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or weakness or else opening to
adverse touches in the physical

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nature, and is often connected
also with some obscurity or

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disharmony in the lower vital or
the physical mind or elsewhere.

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It is very good if one can get
rid of illness entirely by faith

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and yoga power or the influx of
the Divine Force.

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But very often this is not
altogether possible because the

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whole nature is not open or able
to respond to the force.

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The mind may have faith and
respond, but the lower vital in

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the body may not follow.
Or if the mind and vital are

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ready, the body may not respond,
or may respond only partially,

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because it has the habit of
replying to the forces which

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produce a particular illness and
habit is a very obstinate force

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in the material part of the
nature.

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In such cases the use of the
physical means can be resorted

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to, not as the main means, but
as a help or material support to

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the action of the force, not
strong and violent remedies, but

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those that are beneficial
without disturbing the body.

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End Quote reference Sri
Aurobindo Basis of Yoga, Chapter

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5 Physical Consciousness,
Subconscious Sleep and Dream

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illness page 104.