Chapter 63Cure by the Divine Grace

The imperative condition for cure is calm and quietness. Any agitation, any nervousness prolongs the illness.

26 November 1969

* (To someone suffering from stomach and intestinal trouble)

It is due to restlessness and agitation. What is the matter? Bring down peace, the Divine Peace, in your stomach and it will be all right.

* Catch hold of a peace deep within and push it into the cells of the body. With the peace will come back the health.

* Peace and stillness are the great remedy for disease. When we can bring peace in our cells, we are cured.

* Peace in the nerves: indispensable for good health.

* (Someone with rheumatism wrote:)

Am I destined to be an invalid? I have given the best part of my life to the Divine. Is this to be my fate? Is there no way out?

Have faith. There is no disease which cannot be cured by the Divine Grace.

* Do not think you are invalid for ever, because the Grace of the Lord is infinite.

* I am enclosing a portrait of two birds with keen eyesight to encourage you to have faith that your eyes will be cured. I shall see what can be done.

28 January 1932

* What to do about illness?

Be passively confident: let me do it and it is done.

* When one is caught in an illness, how should one pray to the Mother?

Cure me, O Mother!

* Her mental disease was congenital, that is to say, caused by her physical constitution, and it would have happened to her wherever she would have been and whatever life she would have lived. In fact, I made her last here one-and-a-half years more than she would have lasted elsewhere. These congenital diseases can be cured only by an integral transformation of the body itself and we have not reached yet that period in the sadhana; otherwise it is only a so-called “miraculous cure” that can take place and that kind of “miracle” can happen only as the result of an absolute sincerity in the consecration to the Divine and an unshakable faith in the Divine Grace. This was not the case, she was full of fears, desires and demands and terribly concentrated on her exterior being and what she called its needs. This is just the opposite of a sincere consecration.

25 March 1935

* My dear child, Let your receptivity increase this year, to the extent of giving you the power to fully utilise the force that is at work for restoring perfect good health in you. With my love and blessings.

2 February 1948

* X has written again. Two letters to you from his friend Miss Y (who met you on her last visit here some months back) have gone unnoticed — to all appearances at least. She has asked for a blessing-packet for some trouble of hers. She got none. But in her second letter she reported good news.

How “unnoticed”? She got cured! Man of little faith!

31 May 1967

* Before sleeping I told you, “This won’t do. If this boil remains, I will have to remain in bed during the darshan week. I am not sure that this is possible.” In the morning the boil had moved about three inches away, giving me full freedom of movement, and in a day or two it burst and now it is dried up. I wonder whether actually the boil could move in this way.

Anything may happen. It is only our “logical” minds which put limitations. I must congratulate your body for its receptivity.

February 1970

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