WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

Health

Health is the outer expression of a deep harmony, one must be proud of it and not despise it.

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Why imagine always that one is ill or is going to be ill and thus open oneself to all kinds of bad suggestions? There is no reason to be ill and I don't see why you should be so.

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Mother dearest, I have caught a cold. Should I take my bath as usual? [new p. 191]

Do as you like, this is not of much importance; but what is important is to cast off fear. It is fear which makes one fall ill and it is fear which makes healing so difficult. All fear must be [old p. 195]overcome and replaced by a complete trust in the divine Grace.

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For several days there has been pain in the nape of the neck; I am tired of the remedies our dispensary gives me. I rely on Your Will alone to rid me of this illness.

One must have an unshakable faith to be able to do without medicines.

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One must never lose hope or faith--there is nothing incurable, and no limit can be set to the power of the Divine.

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One must find the inner peace and keep it constantly. In the force this peace brings, all these little miseries will disappear.

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Mother, the inherent tendency of the material body is to dissolve, and the mind helps it; how will You be able to stop the natural propensity of my body to disintegration?

It must become aware of the immortality of the elements constituting it (which is a scientifically recognised fact), then it must submit itself to the influence and the will of the psychic being which is immortal in its very nature.

Collected Works of The Mother, First Edition, Volume 16, pp. 194-195