CWTVKS Volume 2

5) Health—Old Age

Health

The hours of sleep one needs depends upon the kind of one's activity during the waking hours. As a rule people who do intellectual work find less sleep sufficient than those who put in more of physical work. It is also a question of habit and adjustment of the bodily needs.

10 September 1948

Paralysis is very usually the result of a direct attack by hostile beings on the nervous being.

The prime target of these hostiles is always the soul of man; they are happiest when they can capture it, devour it. When they fail to do so, they turn to the body.

30 September 1948

Surgical operations leave a certain permanent disablement in the body which thus becomes less responsive to the workings of the Divine Force. At times the body may not respond at all.

12 December 1948

Old Age

There is a special design of Providence in letting men live long. As a rule men who die young die submerged in attachments and bonds. In the case of those who live longer, as age advances, lessons of life sink deep, the futility of the normal ego-led life is realised more and more and the bonds of attachment begin to snap. There is a popular belief that if a serpent lives for a thousand years it develops a new body and goes straight to heaven in its new form. Something akin to this may be said to happen—at any rate, an opportunity for that is given to the long-living. The inner being feels itself more and more separate from the outer encasement as the pasas that bound it to the world snap and the subtle body grows in strength and stature. (Very few old people have real attachments and meshes). The soul develops its own vehicle which stands apart and aloof from the physical body.

13 May 1949

It is not always good to predict the life-span of people, particularly old people. If the predicted end happens to be a long way off, the person tends to go leisurely and waste his time. if it is to come about early, the person develops a dread of it which makes a hell of his Iife.

7 October 1949

When a wicked man dies, people are apt to feel relieved and elated. The truth however is that there is really nothing to feel happy about; on the other hand one must regret the happening. For the longer such a person lives, the greater the chances of his correcting himself; the chances are also more of defeating the Evil force that actuates ‘wicked’ persons; the Force can be weakened at the least, and at the best eliminated, if not changed.

13 April 1949