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Yogis are. Still this “practically” does not mean “absolutely” for all time. The absolute
immunity can only come with the supramental change. For below the supramental
it is the result of an action of a Force among many forces and can be disturbed by a
disruption of the equilibrium established — in the supramental it is a law of the nature;
in a supramentalised body immunity from illness would be automatic, inherent in its
new nature. There is a difference between Yogic Force on the mental and inferior
planes and Supramental Nature. What is acquired and held by the Yoga Force in
the mind and body consciousness is in the supramental inherent and exists not by
achievement but by nature — it is self-existent and absolute.

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What I meant was that the body consciousness through old habit of consciousness
admits the force of illness and goes through the experiences which are associated
with it — e.g. congestion of phlegm in the chest and feeling of suffocation or difficulty
of breathing etc. To get rid of that one must awaken a will and consciousness in the
body itself that refuses to allow these things to impose themselves upon it. But to get
that, still more to get it completely is difficult. One step towards it is to get the inner
consciousness separate from the body — to feel that it is not you who are ill but it
is only something taking place in the body and not affecting your consciousness. It
is then possible to see this separate body consciousness, what it feels, what are its
reactions to things, how it works. One can then act on it to change its consciousness
and reactions.

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I am glad to know the disturbance was expelled last night. Now the receptivity in
the body consciousness has to be kept so that it may not at all return or, if it tries,
may immediately be expelled. You must always try to keep the quietude, not allow
depressing or disturbing thoughts or feelings to enter you or take hold of your mind
or your speech — there is no true reason after one has gained the inner quietness and
wideness why that should be allowed to lapse and these things enter. And if the mind
keeps its quietude and receptivity to higher forces only, it can then easily pass on that
quietude and receptivity to the body consciousness and even to the material cells of
the body.

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As the body consciousness becomes more open to the Force (it is always the most
difficult and the last to open up entirely), this frequent stress of illness will diminish
and disappear.

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