Chapter 60Will to Conquer Illness

His vital force is very poor and mental suggestions rather strong.

Do what he asks for a time. He may find out that it is all his imagination, for it is his imagination that makes him sick or rather gives him the impression of sickness.

* Wake up in yourself a will to conquer. Not a mere will in the mind but a will in the very cells of your body. Without that you can’t do anything; you may take a hundred medicines but they won’t cure you unless you have a will to overcome the physical illness.

I may destroy the adverse force that has possessed you. I may repeat the action a thousand times. But each time that a vacuum is created it will be filled up by one of the many forces that try to rush in. That is why I say, wake up the will to conquer.

20 October 1957

* Do not love your ill health and the ill health will leave you.

28 August 1966

* Both the things are correct. You must put a strong will for getting rid of your illness and you must remain quiet and unperturbed by the results. The two are not contradictory. One should accompany the other. When you are completely cured, it will be an indication of some inner progress.

Sri Aurobindo’s compassion is always there to help you, but some effort is needed from your side also.§

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