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Namah Consciousness and healing

“It is precisely about this progressive trans- consciousness, it will be ordinary physical
formation that I am going to speak to you means you will have to use to act on your body.
this evening.... I have often been asked this These ordinary physical means make up the
question, ‘Why, after having posited as an whole science which has accumulated through
ideal principle that when we deal with our thousands of years of human existence.
body we ought to do it with the knowledge This science is very complex, its processes
that it is only a result and an instrument of innumerable, complicated, uncertain, often
the supreme Reality of the universe and of the contradictory, always progressive and almost
truth of our being, why, after having taught absolutely relative! Still, very precise results
this and shown that this is the truth to be have been achieved; ever since physical
realised, do we have in the organisation of culture has become a serious preoccupation,
our Ashram, doctors, dispensaries, a physical a certain number of experiments, studies,
education of the body based on modern observations have accumulated, which enable
theories accepted everywhere?’ And why, us to regulate diet, activities, exercise, the
when some of you go for a picnic do I forbid whole outer organisation of life, and provide
you to drink water from just anywhere and an adequate basis so that those who make the
tell you to take filtered water with you? Why effort to study and conform strictly to these
do I have the fruit you eat disinfected, etc.? things have a chance to maintain their body
in good health, correct the defects it may have
All this seems contradictory, but this evening and improve its general condition, and even
I intend to explain something to you which, achieve results which are sometimes quite
I hope, will put an end to this feeling of a remarkable.
contradiction in you. In fact, I have told you
many a time that when two ideas or principles I may add, moreover, that this intellectual human
apparently seem to contradict one another, you science, such as it is at present, in its very sincere
must rise a little higher in your thought and effort to find the truth, is, surprisingly enough,
find the point where the contradictions meet drawing closer and closer to the essential truth
in a comprehensive synthesis. of the Spirit. It is not impossible to foresee the
movement where the two will unite in a very
Here, it is very easy if we know one thing, deep and very close understanding of the essential
that the method we use to deal with our body, truth.
maintain it, keep it fit, improve it and keep
it in good health, depends exclusively on the So, for all those who live on the physical plane,
state of consciousness we are in; for our body in the physical consciousness, it is physical
is an instrument of our consciousness and this means and processes which have to be used in
consciousness can act directly on it and obtain dealing with the body. And as the vast majority
what it wants from it. of human beings, even in the Ashram, live in a
consciousness which, if not exclusively physical,
So, if you are in an ordinary physical is at least predominantly physical, it is quite
consciousness, if you see things with the natural for them to follow and obey all the
eyes of the ordinary physical consciousness, if principles laid down by physical science for
you think of them with the ordinary physical the care of the body.

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