The Mother’s commentaries on Sri Aurobindo’s 'Thoughts and Aphorisms' spoken or written in French.
Ce volume comporte les commentaires de la Mère sur les Pensées et Aphorismes de Sri Aurobindo, et le texte de ces Aphorismes.
The Mother’s commentaries on Sri Aurobindo’s 'Thoughts and Aphorisms' were given over the twelve-year period from 1958 to 1970. All the Mother's commentaries were spoken or written in French. She also translated Sri Aurobindo's text into French.
400—Man was once naturally healthy and could revert to that primal condition if he were suffered; but Medical Science pursues our body with an innumerable pack of drugs and assails the imagination with ravening hordes of microbes. 401—I would rather die and have done with it than spend life in defending myself against a phantasmal siege of Page 324 microbes. If that is to be barbarous, unenlightened, I embrace gladly my Cimmerian darkness. 402—Surgeons save and cure by cutting and maiming. Why not rather seek to discover Nature's direct all-powerful remedies? 403—It should take long for self-cure to replace medicine, because of the fear, self-distrust and unnatural physical reliance on drugs which Medical Science has taught to our minds and bodies and made our second nature.
400—Man was once naturally healthy and could revert to that primal condition if he were suffered; but Medical Science pursues our body with an innumerable pack of drugs and assails the imagination with ravening hordes of microbes.
401—I would rather die and have done with it than spend life in defending myself against a phantasmal siege of
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microbes. If that is to be barbarous, unenlightened, I embrace gladly my Cimmerian darkness.
402—Surgeons save and cure by cutting and maiming. Why not rather seek to discover Nature's direct all-powerful remedies?
403—It should take long for self-cure to replace medicine, because of the fear, self-distrust and unnatural physical reliance on drugs which Medical Science has taught to our minds and bodies and made our second nature.
We cannot counteract the harm done by mental faith in the need for drugs by any external measures. Only by escaping from the mental prison and emerging consciously into the light of the spirit, by a conscious union with the Divine, can we enable Him to give back to us the balance and health we have lost.
The supramental transformation is the only true remedy.
17 March 1970
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