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Namah Cancer: a call to bring forth the Psychic

anger along with a therapist I had found. has become more an offering now, more
Through him, gradually I came back to and more each day. I got connected to the
this body that I had abandoned years ago. teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
Through meditative practices, I developed in a strong manner only during the online
a certain intimacy with my being, with my course of ‘New Creation of the Self’, run by
thoughts, with my emotions, with the cells The Gnostic Centre (where fortunately my kids
of my body. It was during such sessions that went to pre-school). It was only through this
one day I had a strong visceral experience course with Ameeta didi, that I connected
of being in touch with something that was and started to embed myself more deeply
more real than everything else, something in Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s vision
which, if allowed to come in front, had the of Integral Education and Integral Health. I
capacity to lead my life. have just begun. My journey has just started,
as if in infancy in my mid-30s! I feel really
After that, my life became a more continuous excited to now offer myself for Their work,
saadhanaa. I knew where I was supposed to be, and I see surroundings and people around
at my centre, in my heart, in my Psychic. All me in unison with all that as well. In the
the rest was just auxiliary, everything else sense that once I became sincere in my own
was secondary. I had a faith that all would saadhanaa, things changed, circumstances
fall naturally into place once I united with changed, people began to appear who are
my Psychic. connected with Sri Aurobindo. I am given
more opportunities to work for Their vision,
After a phase of inner work I underwent and to be deeply united with my Psychic
two surgeries of the bladder along with a forever. Cancer has thus been the biggest
short period of treatment of the bladder with gift ever received in my life, without which
BCG vaccine. It was a painful time but the I could never have put myself into this fire
newfound centre of my being grounded me of longing.
so well that with it I felt that I could actually
move mountains, let alone conquer an illness. Reference

The gift of cancer 1. Sri Aurobindo. Birth Centenary Library, Volume
22. Cent. ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
I have remained cancer-free from 2016. Life Trust; 1970, p. 137.

Monica Gulati, a learner and a seeker, is an immunologist by education, is based in Gurgaon, India. She
shares her experiences on going through cancer with faith at https://thegiftofcancer.wordpress.com

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