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Certainly, one can act from within on
an illness and cure it. Only it is not
always easy as there is much resistance in
Matter, a resistance of inertia. An untiring
persistence is necessary; at first one may
fail altogether or the symptoms increase,
but gradually the control of the body or
of a particular illness becomes stronger.
Again, to cure an occasional attack of
illness by inner means is comparatively
easy, to make the body immune from it in
future is more difficult. A chronic malady
is harder to deal with, more reluctant to
disappear entirely than an occasional
disturbance of the body. So long as the
control of the body is imperfect, there
are all these and other imperfections and
difficulties in the use of the inner force.

If you can succeed by the inner action
in preventing increase, even that is
something; you have then by abhyāsa to
strengthen the power till it becomes able to
cure. Note that so long as the power is not
entirely there, some aid of physical means
need not be altogether rejected.

— Sri Aurobindo