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Cancer: a call to bring forth the Psychic

Monica Gulati

Abstract
Cancer is an illness that has become quite commonplace. Some years ago, one rarely heard
of people having this illness, but a few years hence we encounter it pretty frequently. I had
the privilege of knowing this illness through my own experience with it at a young age. And
what it revealed to me did not reflect its usually publicised image. For me, it turned out to be
the biggest gift in this life, without which I would have just roamed around wandering and
clueless. Can cancer or any other illness be a friend? A true friend who mentors you and does
not let you stray from your path, your raison d’être?

Introduction and from the Divine and led by the common
habits of the mind, life and the body which
As I close my eyes and sit in the Delhi Metro, are the laws of the Ignorance….The spiritual
so as to be guided on what is the most relevant life, on the contrary, proceeds directly by the
material of my story that I would like to change of consciousness, a change from the
present in this article, I am shown that it would ordinary consciousness, ignorant and separated
be a shift from ‘ordinary consciousness.’ I from its true self and from God, to a greater
open my eyes and find my hand going inside consciousness in which one finds one’s true
the bag hanging on my shoulders. There is a being and comes first into direct and living
small welcome booklet in it, which was given contact and then into union with the Divine. For
to me when I became a member of the Sri the spiritual seeker this change of consciousness
Aurobindo Society Gurugram recently. I open is the one thing he seeks and nothing else matters
the first page and what I read told me that I (1).”
was guided to do this. This is what the first
page reads: Indeed, this sums up the whole story of my
transformation through cancer: a shift from
Change of consciousness the ordinary consciousness to one which is
not the ordinary. I don’t know whether, if
“The ordinary life is that of the average human not for the cancer, I would ever have had this
consciousness separated from its own true self much of wisdom myself to seek for something

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