illness

11/30/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The cause of illnesses and accidents

Q: Sweet Mother, Are illnesses and accidents the result of something bad one has thought or done, of a fall in one’s consciousness? If the cause […]
09/03/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Surest way to be cured

To keep quiet and to concentrate, leaving the Force from above to do its work, is the surest way to be cured of anything and everything. […]
08/21/2023

Overcoming the forces of illness

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 […]
12/22/2022

Stopping illness

Q: Sweet Mother, when one sees an illness coming, how can one stop it? Ah! First of all, you must not want it and nothing in […]
04/16/2022

The Superior Cause

Q: Some Sufis and Bhaktas take illness and other such things as coming from the Divine. They are right. They take everything as coming from the […]
03/10/2022

Reasonableness in spirituality

Q: Wasn’t Dr. Becharlal’s fear of illness merely a mental notion? How can one fall ill by sitting a long time in meditation? Not just by […]
12/06/2021

Duration of sleep

Q: Is six hours of sleep at night enough? …Six is the minimum, at any time except in old age. The ordinary period of sleep most […]
12/02/2021
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

On Pain and Illness

Q: Some sadhaks hold the belief that an illness is a cherishable thing, that it comes from the Divine to test our faith: it makes us […]
11/18/2021
Sri Aurobindo

Is illness cherishable?

Some sadhaks hold the belief that an illness is a cherishable thing, that it comes from the Divine to test our faith: it makes us remember […]