Chapter 62Peace and Quiet, Faith and Surrender

Your readings are correct.

In my last note I was referring to food desires. Unless you control the food you take, you will always be ill.

14 September 1959

* Conquest over the greed for food: a promise of good health.

* To keep quiet and to concentrate, leaving the Force from above to do its work, is the surest way to be cured of anything and everything. There is no illness that can resist that if it is done properly, in time and long enough, with a steady faith and a strong will.

6 December 1934

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I am having fever. What is the best way to get rid of it?

Remain peaceful and confident and it will soon be over.

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I have a severe pain in my throat, neck and the back of my head. The attacks are intolerable and I am losing patience.

You must not lose patience, this does not hasten the cure. On the contrary, you must keep a peaceful faith that you are going to be cured.

5 October 1935

* Establish a greater peace and quietness in your body, that will give you the strength to resist attacks of illness.

22 October 1935

* The only thing I can suggest about diseases is to call down peace. Keep the mind away from the body by whatever means — whether by reading Sri Aurobindo’s books or meditation. It is in this state that the Grace acts. And it is the Grace alone that cures. The medicines only give a faith to the body. That is all.

* My dear child, now it is time for the faith to become truly active and to stand unshaken against all contradictions. Have the faith, the true faith, that you will be cured and the cure is bound to come.

My love and blessings.

2 February 1949

* Instead of being upset and struggling, the best thing to do is to offer one’s body to the Divine with the sincere prayer, “Let Thy Will be done.” If there is any possibility of cure, it will establish the best conditions for it; and if cure is impossible, it will be the very best preparation for getting out of the body and the life without it.

In any case the first indispensable condition is a quiet surrender to the Divine’s will.

With love and blessings.

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Turn your mind completely away from your difficulty, concentrate exclusively on the Light and the Force coming from above; let the Lord do for your body whatever He pleases. Hand over to Him totally the entire responsibility of your physical being.

This is the cure. With my blessings.

5 March 1959

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