object:1970_03_15
book class:On Thoughts And Aphorisms
author class:The Mother
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter
1970 Sun 15 March
Aphorism - 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399
394We ought to use the divine health in us to cure and prevent diseases; but Galen and Hippocrates and their tribe have given us instead an armoury of drugs and a barbarous Latin hocus-pocus as our physical gospel.
395Medical Science is well-meaning and its practitioners often benevolent and not seldom self-sacrificing; but when did the well-meaning of the ignorant save them from harm-doing?
396If all remedies were really and in themselves efficacious and all medical theories sound, how would that console us for our lost natural health and vitality? The upas-tree is sound in all its parts, but it is still an upas-tree.
397The spirit within us is the only all-efficient doctor and submission of the body to it the one true panacea.
398God within is infinite and self-fulfilling Will. Unappalled by the fear of death canst thou leave to Him, not as an experiment, with a calm and entire faith thy ailments? Thou shalt find that in the end He exceeds the skill of a million doctors.
399Health protected by twenty thousand precautions is the gospel of the doctor; but it is not Gods evangel for the body, nor Natures.
The sovereignty of mind has made humanity the slave of doctors and their remedies. And the result is that illnesses are increasing in number and seriousness.
The only true salvation for men is to escape from mental domination by opening to the Divine Influence which they will obtain through a total surrender.
15 March 1970
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Aphorism - 390, 391, 392, 393
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