Chapter 64Doctors and Medicines

With your blessings my disease gets partially cured but does not go.

This gives the exact measure of your body’s receptivity. Concentrate the force on the diseased parts and they will improve.

* About others I inform you in silence and it works, but about my own illness I have to inform you physically — why?

It depends on the physical reception of each one, and that receptivity depends on the more or less dominating mind.

* It is a question of receptivity. I am doing the best that can be done for him, but he goes on thinking that he is ill. All the time he is busy with that idea and he has made a strong formation of illness around him. He is unable to receive my help because of this formation. Let him discard the idea of illness and more than half the trouble will be over and it will be easy to cure him.§

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Illnesses Truth is supreme harmony and supreme delight. All disorder, all suffering is falsehood. Thus it can be said that illnesses are falsehoods of the body and, consequently, doctors are soldiers of the great and noble army fighting in the world for the conquest of Truth.

* If we take the human body as a tabernacle of the Lord, then medical science becomes the ritual of worship and doctors the priests who officiate in the temple. Thus considered, the medical career is a priesthood and should be treated as such.

* A broad mind, a generous heart, an unflinching will, a quiet steady determination, an inexhaustible energy and a total trust in one’s mission — this makes a perfect doctor.

* After all, an illness is only a wrong attitude taken by some part of the body. The chief role of the doctor is, by various means, to induce the body to recover its trust in the Supreme Grace.

* To medical knowledge and experience, add full faith in the Divine’s Grace and your healing capacity will have no limits.

* Spiritual power of healing: opening and receptivity to the divine influence.

* The material power to heal demands a great sincerity in one’s goodwill.

* I am still not through with this second spell of heart trouble. The first was in June 1938, owing to a gigantic overdose of a stimulant tonic powder. This time it is strain of the heart-muscle. The doctors have advised complete rest in a supine position. Not even the head is to be lifted. They also warn me that if I don’t take extreme care I may develop more serious trouble. But I feel full of your presence and do what my suddenly and abundantly released poetic inspiration leads me to do. I sit up frequently, get excited with the passage of the poems through me — especially when the lines seem to come from wide, far-off spaces — and my heart starts beating fast at that time and if the doctors could then put their stethoscopes to my chest they would begin to shake their heads at the prospect of a quick cure. But I am unconcerned. I trust implicitly in your power and feel like laughing away the black future with which they — of course, with the best intentions and for my own good — threaten me in case of carelessness about my heart. I feel certain, Mother dearest, the Divine Power can help — can’t it?

My dear child, I quite agree with you that there is a power other and much more powerful than that of the doctors and the medicines and I am glad to see that you put your trust in it. Surely it will lead you throughout all difficulties and in spite of all catastrophic warnings. Keep your faith intact and all will be all right.

28 May 1948

* (About medicines)

I am not specially interested in these things which are only exterior help for the exterior consciousness and not essential for the yoga.

* The whole value of a medicine is in the Spirit it contains.

22 February 1961

* To go from one doctor to another is the same mistake as to go from one Guru to another. One is on the material plane what the other is on the spiritual. You must choose your doctor and stick to him if you do not want to enter into physical confusion. It is only if the doctor himself decides to consult another or others that the thing can be done safely.

14 March 1961

* I sent you to the doctor and expect you to do what he asks you to do.

1 April 1961

* Do you think that I could take treatment from Dr. X — after all, it is not any system of medicine but your Grace that cures.

It is true that the faith cures more than the treatment. You might take Dr. X’s treatment and call for the Divine’s help.

5 August 1962

* Will you ask Kali to burn me with a fire of fever? I have become rather desperate. Shall I take simple ayurvedic medicines?

Before being so desperate, try ayurvedic treatment and take it with a concentration on Kali’s Force. Blessings.

6 May 1965

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