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Cancer: a chance to recognise the disharmony among the various
parts of the being

Monica Gulati

Abstract
This article is based on personal experience but has vast implications for us all. The author knows
why cancer came to her: to shed light on her entire being. She has consciously used the torchlight
to organise herself inside. She has stepped out of victimhood and not wasted the Grace that has so
unexpectedly stepped forward at this point of her life. With the Light present in the words of Sri
Aurobindo and the Mother, a sunlit path appears! It is a path unfolding to an entirely new way of
living. How can she not be grateful to this disease which has helped her tackle the immense task of
human life? What would we do, what must we do?

Introduction “Disease is needlessly prolonged and ends in
death oftener that is inevitable, because the
In 2014, at the age of 32, I began a new phase mind of the patient supports and dwells upon
of life. I was about to become a mother for the the disease of the body (1).”
second time. And I was going to be diagnosed
with bladder cancer pretty soon after the “An illness of the body is always the outer
delivery, the symptoms of which had been expression and translation of a disorder, a
visible during the pregnancy. Soon after the disharmony in the inner being; unless this inner
diagnosis, there was guidance and light being disorder is healed, the outer cure cannot be total
shed on each phase of the life ahead. If not and permanent (2).”
for the work of Grace, I could not see anyway
how that life for me could have moved ahead. I was not aware of the teachings of Sri
I had been given a rare chance to look at the Aurobindo and the Mother when cancer
various parts of my being, and recognise for happened to me. Although there were people
myself the disharmony present. If not for from the holistic/alternative healing, and
phases like these, one faces the prospect of educational fields that I knew in circles where
leading an ignorant life without even getting I worked before and after marriage in 2010 as
to know the parts that constitute us, and the an alternative education coach to students in
state they are left in. colleges. After marriage I found myself stuck

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