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acute creative imagination which brings in disorders into the body that are nervous
and not physical — there is no physical illness of the heart but there are pains and
palpitations, nothing physically wrong with stomach and intestines and yet there is
inability to digest — nervous dyspepsia; pains are created in different parts of the
body and so on — sometimes there is hysteria.

These conditions are not always native to the body — they are often created by
troubles in the life, some disturbing illness or other reasons — but often it is due to
some hereditary cause or otherwise native to the system. Women tend to get like this
sometimes if there is disorder of the menstruation.

When there is this tendency of the nervous being, it is imperative to get down peace
and strength into the nervous being and not allow it to upset the body or the general
system.

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Always the same rigid mind that turns everything into a statement of miraculous
absoluteness! It is my experience and the Mother’s that all illnesses pass through the
nervous or vital-physical sheath of the subtle consciousness and subtle body before
they enter the physical. If one is conscious of the subtle body or with the subtle
consciousness, one can stop an illness on its way and prevent it from entering the
physical body. But it may have come without one’s noticing, or when one is asleep
or through the subconscient, or in a sudden rush when one is off one’s guard; then
there is nothing to do but to fight it out from a hold already gained on the body. Let us
suppose however that I am always on guard, always conscious, even in sleep — that
does not mean that I am immunised in my very nature from all illness. It only means
a power of self-defence against it when it tries to come. Self-defence by these inner
means may become so strong that the body becomes practically immune as many

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