The Mother's brief statements on various aspects of spiritual life including some conversations.
Part One consists primarily of brief written statements by the Mother on various aspects of spiritual life. Written between the early 1930s and the early 1970s, the statements have been compiled from her public messages, private notes, and correspondence with disciples. About two-thirds of them were written in English; the rest were written in French and appear here in English translation. There are also a small number of spoken comments, most of them in English. Some are tape-recorded messages; others are reports by disciples that were later approved by the Mother for publication. These reports are identified by the symbol § placed at the end. Part Two consists of thirty-two conversations not included elsewhere in the Collected Works. The first six conversations are the earliest recorded conversations of the 1950s' period. About three-fourths of these conversations were spoken in French and appear here in English translation.
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.
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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 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
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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
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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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In every case, it is the Force that cures.
Medicines have little effect; it is the faith in medicines that cures.
Get treated by the doctor whom you trust and take only the medicines that inspire trust in you.
The body only has trust in material methods and that is why you have to give it medicines—but medicines have an effect only if the Force acts through them.
Allopaths ordinarily cure one thing, only to the detriment of another.
Ayurvedic doctors do not usually have this drawback. That is why I recommend them.
20 December 1965
Whatever the ordeal for the purification of my nature, I must pass through it with or without medical help.
You are quite right. Stick to your faith and you will get cured.
With blessings.
5 July 1967
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