Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

Fragment ID: 20933

To heal by the true, the divine force is obviously the best, provided the body is amenable. It has a consciousness of its own which must be enlightened before it gives a full response. Illness can certainly be acted upon and cured, only it is not always easy as there is much resistance in Matter, resistance of inertia. Much persistence is necessary. Gradually the control of the body or a particular illness becomes stronger. By practice you have to increase the power till it becomes able to cure. Note that so long as the power is not entirely there some aid of physical nature is not to be altogether neglected. The physical nature is a thing of habit. It is out of habit that it responds to the forces of illness. One has to get into it the contrary habit of responding to the divine forces only.