... body which we call the nervous envelope—if this remains strong and refuses entrance to the illness force, then one can remain well even in the midst of plague or other epidemics—if the envelope is pierced or weak, then illness can come in. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - IV: Illness and Health They [the forces of illness] first weaken or break through the nervous envelope, the aura. If that... Outwardly there are many causes, but there is a deeper cause which is always there. I said the other day that if the nervous envelope is intact, accidents can be avoided, and even if there is an accident it won’t have any consequences. As soon as there is a scratch or a defect in the nervous envelope of the being and according to the nature of this scratch, if one may say so, its place, its character, there... inner harmony which keeps the envelope intact, it protects you from everything. There are people who lead quite an ordinary life, who know how to sleep as one should, eat as one should, and their nervous envelope is so intact that they pass through all dangers as though unconcerned. It is a capacity one can cultivate in oneself. If one becomes aware of the weak spot in one’s envelope, a few minutes’ c ...
... with the physical it forms as it were the "nervous envelope." The force of a disease has to break through it to reach the body—except for the attacks on the most material parts. You can then feel the disease coming and also feel in the nervous envelope the part of the body which it is going to, or intending to, attack because what is in the nervous envelope has a material counterpart in the body. Thus ...
... your aura or nervous envelope which allows these invasions of the forces of illness. That can only be set right by a strengthening of this nervous envelope. That can be done partly by a healthy climate and a life without anxieties, but the only radical cure is to bring down the strength of the higher consciousness into the nervous being and the body and refortify the nervous envelope. This depends... sometimes very bad leading to occasional crises. But from what you describe and from what I know, I believe that this ill-health is due to the weakness of the nervous system—the vital physical and the nervous envelope and not to any specific illness. If so, it can be got rid of by strengthening that part. You should determine on that and dismiss in future any depressing suggestions and certainly never think ...
... learned how to do it, we can stop them by the will or otherwise. We sense too around us a vital physical or nervous envelope which radiates from the body and protects it, and we can feel the adverse forces trying to break through it and can interfere, stop them or reinforce the nervous envelope. Or we can feel the symptoms of illness, fever or cold for instance, in the subtle physical sheath before they... with a little attention it becomes clear that it is not the material cells, but something more subtle that feels it. There is what is called the nervous envelope surrounding the body—you are probably seeing the sūkṣma and the nervous envelope in one view. The sūkṣma deha contains the sthūla deha . Only it is not bound to itself and can contract or expand unlike the material body. The Physical ...
... sort of protection round the body which we call the nervous envelope—if this remains strong and refuses entrance to the illness force, then one can remain well even in the midst of plague or other epidemics—if the envelope is pierced or weak, then illness can come in. What you felt attacked was not really the physical body, but this nervous envelope and the nervous body (prāṇakoṣa) of which it is an... an extension or cover. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - IV: Illness and Health They [the forces of illness] first weaken or break through the nervous envelope, the aura. If that is strong and whole, a thousand million germs will not be able to do anything to you. The envelope pierced, they attack the subconscient mind in the body, sometimes also the vital mind or mind proper—prepare the illness ...
... sort of protection round the body which we call the nervous envelope—if this remains strong and refuses entrance to the illness force, then one can remain well even in the midst of plague or other epidemics—if the envelope is pierced or weak, then illness can come in. What you felt attacked was not really the physical body, but this nervous envelope and the nervous body ( prāṇakoṣa ) of which it is... glands and what not. These things and the germs also are only a minor physical instrumentation for something supraphysical. They [ the forces of illness ] first weaken or break through the nervous envelope, the aura. If that is strong and whole, a thousand million germs will not be able to do anything to you. The envelope pierced, they attack the subconscient mind in the body, sometimes also the ...
... with the physical it forms as it were the "nervous envelope". The force of a disease has to break through it to reach the body – except for the attacks on the most material parts. You can then feel the disease coming and also feel in the nervous envelope the part of the body which it is going to, or intending to, attack because what is in the nervous envelope has a material counterpart in the body. ...
... prevent diseases and to cure them if you have the knowledge of these planes. There is what is called "the nervous envelope", which is an intermediary between the subtle and the gross body. It is that which acts as a sheath protecting you against all attacks of diseases. If the nervous envelope is intact no disease can come to you. In most people, with aging, this envelope wears out and then gradually... gradually the forces are able to penetrate and pierce it. That is one of the causes of death. Disciple : Can this nervous envelope be seen in the patient? Sri Aurobindo : Yes; and if you can see what is necessary you can put it in. In order to keep it in tact you must have quiet, a balanced life, rest, etc. People generally spoil it by excitement and other irregularities. In the case ...
... of neurasthenic and hysteric persons the nervous envelope is damaged. Disciple : Then it is the question of the nervous sheath. Sri Aurobindo : All the diseases come from outside. The force of the disease pierces, what the Mother calls, "the nervous envelope" and then enters the physical body. If one is conscious of the nervous envelope, – the subtle Page 89 nervous ...
... the forces of inertia. Is that all your sleep [ three-and-a-half hours ]? If so, it is far too little. If you do not sleep enough, the body and the nervous Page 438 envelope will be weakened and the body and the nervous envelope are the basis of the sadhana. I am glad the peace is coming back at last and I trust it will increase and push out these other things. But how is it ...
... of coming, it could give the decisive push. But in most cases desire or will behind the thought-force would be necessary. The Mother says that depression or discouragement cuts holes in the nervous envelope and makes hostile attacks more easy 28 In one sense this means that a man with goodwill should not discourage anyone's wrong ideas, Page 310 impulses or movements. But would this... learn to avoid these things. He cannot expect people to flatter his failures or mistakes or indulge his foibles merely because he has the self-habit of indulging in depression and hurting his nervous envelope if that is done. To keep himself free from depression is his business, not that of others. For instance some people have the habit of getting into depression if the Mother does not comply with ...
... before it can affect the physical body, touch another layer of the being that surrounds and protects it. This subtler layer is called in different teachings by various names,—the etheric body, the nervous envelope. It is a subtle body and yet almost visible. In density something like the vibrations that you see around a very hot and steaming object, it emanates from the physical body and closely covers... and unreasoning attraction or repulsion for each other. The first seat of these reactions is in this protecting envelope. Easily we feel attracted towards people who bring a reinforcement to our nervous envelope; we are repelled by those who disturb or hurt it. Whatever gives it a Page 89 sense of expansion and comfort and ease, whatever makes it respond with a feeling of happiness and pleasure ...
... the Mother gives flowers not only as a blessing but as a help in illness." We have already seen with Mother that the main cause of bodily illness is the impairment of the subtle sheath: the nervous envelope or aura. She has also told us about the major part played by fear which opens the door to illness enabling it to enter the body and capture it. Sri Aurobindo confirmed all this from his own experience... Dr. Nirod, "these things and the germs also are only a minor physical instrumentation for something supraphysical." The forces behind bacilli, viruses, etc., "first weaken or break through the nervous envelope, the aura. If that is strong and whole, a thousand million germs will not be able to do anything Page 160 to you. The envelope pierced, they attack the subconscient mind in the ...
... action"? Illusion means that they think their action is all-important and its egoistic objects are the truth that must be followed. 17 June 1933 In Conversations the Mother says about the nervous envelope: "Depression and discouragement have a very adverse effect; they cut out holes in it, as it were, in its very stuff, render it weak and unresisting and open to hostile attacks an easy passage"... learn to avoid these things. He cannot expect people to flatter his failures or mistakes or indulge his foibles merely because he has the silly habit of indulging in depression and hurting his nervous envelope if that is done. To keep himself free from depression is his business, not that of others. For instance some people have the habit of getting into depression if the Mother does not comply with ...
... Outwardly there are many causes, but there is a deeper cause which is always there. I said the other day that if the nervous envelope is intact, accidents can be avoided, and even if there is an accident it won't have any consequences. As soon as there is a scratch or a defect in the nervous envelope of the being and according to the nature of this scratch, if one may say so, its place, its character, there ...
... how to do it, we can stop them by the will or otherwise. We sense too around us a vital physical or nervous envelope which radiates from the body and protects it, and we can feel the adverse forces trying to break through it and can interfere, stop them or reinforce the nervous envelope. Or we can feel the symptoms of illness, fever or cold, for instance, in the subtle physical sheath before ...
... stop with the realisation in the mental plane, the psychic element not being necessary for it. But for complete transformation, both things are needed. PURANI: In case of a weakening of the nervous envelope, can one replenish it by drawing the Force? SRI AUROBINDO: Drawing from where? From the universal vital or from the Higher Force? PURANI: The universal vital. SRI AUROBINDO: Have you... source may not be safe, I don't try. SRI AUROBINDO: There is no harm in drawing from the universal vital. One can combine its action with that of the Higher Force. If one is conscious of the nervous envelope and its weakening, one can put it right, replenish or increase its strength by any or both of the processes. But when you speak of lack of will, you must guard against any inertia of the being ...
... be comfortable and keep it in good shape?" Sri Aurobindo insisted that sleep was as necessary for the body as food. "If you do not sleep enough the body and the nervous envelope will be weakened and the body and the nervous envelope are the basis of the sadhana." He took great pains to explain to the sadhaks of his yoga that this was not a yoga in which physical austerities had to be done for their ...
... inner harmony which keeps the envelope intact, it protects you from everything. There are people who lead quite an ordinary life, who know how to sleep as one should, eat as one should, and their nervous envelope is so intact that they pass through all dangers as though unconcerned. It is a capacity one can cultivate in oneself. If one becomes aware of the weak spot in one's envelope, a few minutes' c ...
... the people felt after seeing this X is a sign of vampirism, but very often there is no such feeling but there is an after-effect on the whole. The nerves get gradually wrong—what is called the nervous envelope becomes weak or in one way or another the vitality becomes weak or gets into an abnormal condition—excitable and unstable. There are many Page 335 such ways in which the effect shows ...
... machinery that is not kept wound up to go on again. Then one can form the opposite habit in the subconscient of admitting only what the inner being consents to think or speak. It is the nervous envelope that is weak—it is this that you saw. The fact that you feel weak when talking with people shows that the origin of the whole trouble is a weakened nervous force. It is this that you have to get ...
... enters the body. If one is conscious of this subtle nervous sheath, then the disease can be thrown away, as I did at Baroda with the thoughts, before it can enter. In neurasthenic people this nervous envelope becomes damaged. DR. BECHARLAL: Does neuralgia also come in the same way? SRI AUROBINDO (laughing) : Yes, I suppose you are thinking of your own case? DR. BECHARLAL: How then is one to ...
... Forces diminish the general resistance of the body in an occult way and germs according to their individual characteristics try to capture the body? They first weaken or break through the nervous envelope, the aura. If that is strong and whole, a thousand million germs will not be able to do anything to you. The envelope pierced, they attack the subconscient mind in the body; sometimes also the ...
... the people felt after seeing this X is a sign of vampirism, but very often there is no such feeling but there is an after-effect on the whole. The nerves get gradually wrong—what is called the nervous envelope becomes weak or in one way or another the vitality becomes weak or gets into an abnormal condition—excitable and unstable. There are many such ways in which the effect shows itself. Sex-vampirism ...
... sleep ration makes the nerves morbid, weakens the brain, strains the physical system and renders it unfit for the necessary concentration during the waking hours. And since the body and the nervous envelope form the twin plinth of our Sadhana, the prospect of their decay and degeneracy through ill-advised deprivation of sleep cannot certainly be nonchalantly viewed. But what then is the ...
... occult knowledge and also a deep knowledge of all the inner workings of each one." 36 Actually, an illness invades and takes root because the protective outer cover - the etheric body, the nervous envelope - has been pierced.. It is this subtle yet invisible body that must be made truly impregnable, and for this peace and equanimity and confidence, faith in health and an unruffled and cheerful ...
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