Chapter 55Illness and Health

You ask me whether your illness comes from yoga. By no means — far from damaging health, yoga helps to build up a health that is robust and unfailing.

29 June 1942

* Do not forget that to succeed in our yoga one must have a strong and healthy body.

For this, the body must do exercise, have an active and regular life, work physically, eat well, and sleep well.

It is in good health that the way towards transformation is found.

18 April 1971

* It is good to do exercises and to lead a simple and hygienic life, but for the body to be truly perfect, it must open to the divine forces, it must be subject only to the divine influence, it must aspire constantly to realise the Divine.

* Good health is the exterior expression of an inner harmony. We must be proud if we are in good health and not despise it.

* As yet happiness and good health are not normal conditions in this world.

We must protect them carefully against the intrusion of their opposites.

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