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Namah                                        Consciousness and healing





        still on an evolutionary curve and until he  exceeding oneself, all that tries to go beyond
        crosses some crucial landmarks, his bodily,  the fixed formulas of life to discover the new
        and even his mental life, will remain in a  and the unknown, all conquest for new
        state of precarious balance. This is especially  knowledge, all spiritual seeking to go beyond
        so because our brief existence is surrounded  the last limits of mind, even of space and time,
        by countless forces that are having an  all urge towards change, in fact, all education
        impact upon us all the time and the human  implies that in some ways we can evolve. In
        body, though evolved in certain ways, is  fact if we look at man, it would seem that
        yet not evolved to an extent wherein it can  he is meant to evolve consciously unlike the
        spontaneously detect and protect itself or  animal or the genus and species below him
        destroy the invading element that triggers  whose evolution is always under the stress
        the disease-process.                     of circumstances and challenging situations
                                                 that eventually threaten its very existence.
        The final answer that can provide us a
        spontaneous immunity against all sorts of  But man need not wait  for such a long
        diseases has to be found within the body  time. He is endowed with a tremendous
        itself. A state of health dependent upon  capacity not only to change and adapt but
        crutches borrowed from outside is always  also to discover new things, integrate new
        an unsure thing. The body must eventually  knowledge into his existing frame of life and
        find ways and means to handle and heal  thereby evolve the frame itself. Now if we
        the various challenges it faces. In fact that  take the body itself as a material frame and
        has always been the case and has resulted  consciousness as the fabric that builds the
        in the evolution of forms so far through the  frame then it is not difficult to assume that
        varied challenges we face. The final answer  if we can change the fabric, which means
        too lies in an evolution of our human body  the consciousness itself, then the very bodily
        that is vulnerable to various pathogens  frame will sooner or later change to adapt
        and pathological states, into a body that is  and accommodate the new consciousness
        spontaneously immune.                    that begins to operate within it.

        Diseases as an evolutionary challenge    What it means is that the fundamental
                                                 essence of existence is not unconscious
        Most human beings will simply laugh at  matter but consciousness. Consciousness is
        the prospect even though they believe in  the fundamental reality behind creation. It
        evolution through challenges. According  is not just a silent knowledge that is inbuilt
        to these sometimes well-meaning people,  within created things but a power that
        evolution is an unconscious process and if  secretly effectuates all the various processes
        it has to happen, it will happen but there  according to a deep wisdom that is inherent
        is nothing that we can do to hasten it. The  within it. Each form is a certain self-limitation
        paradox of this thought is that all our human  of consciousness for the expression of certain
        life is governed with this idea of conscious  qualities. The solidity and the strength of the
        evolution, even though within certain limits.  mountain, the flow of the river, the splendour
        All striving for progress, all efforts towards  of the sun, the radiance of the stars, the


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