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Attacks of illness are attacks of the lower nature or
of adverse forces taking advantage of some weakness,
opening or response in the nature,— like all other
things that come and have got to be thrown away,
they come from outside. If one can feel them so coming
and get the strength and the habit to throw them
away before they can enter the body, then one can
remain free from illness. Even when the attack seems
to rise from within, that means only that it has not
been detected before it entered the subconscient; once
in the subconscient, the force that brought it rouses it
from there sooner or later and it invades the system.
When you feel it just after it has entered, it is because
though it came direct and not through the subconscient,
yet you could not detect it while it was still outside.
Very often it arrives like that frontally or more often
tangentially from the side direct, forcing its way
through the subtle vital envelope which is our main
armour of defence, but it can be stopped there in the
envelope itself before it penetrates the material body.
Then one may feel some effect, e.g., feverishness or a
tendency to cold, but there is not the full invasion of
the malady. If it can be stopped earlier or if the vital
envelope of itself resists and remains strong, vigorous
and intact, then there is no illness; the attack produces
no physical effect and leaves no traces.

— Sri Aurobindo