Contact with The Mother

THE HEALING FORCE

The Divine has His own mysterious ways of puffing us ignorant mortals towards His Love and Grace which we resist with our utmost blindness.

For two years I was suffering from a disease which could hardly be diagnosed. There was blood-coagulation and excessive increase of red corpuscles. I was unable to walk even ten or fifteen feet. My diet was cut down to a small quantity of fruits only. No treatment helped.

A friend of mine happened to visit Pondicherry where his sister stays. He came into contact with a homeopath of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, to whom he casually related the symptoms of my disease and whom he wanted to give some medicine for me, if possible. The doctor got the Mother’s consent to take up the case.

It may be well to recall what Sri Aurobindo says about the use of medicines in illness. They are “a pis aller that have to be used when something in the consciousness does not respond superficially to the Force.”

“Illness marks some imperfection or weakness or else opening to adverse touches in the physical nature and is often connected also with some obscurity or disharmony in the lower vital or the physical mind or elsewhere.”

“It is very good if one can get rid of illness entirely by faith and Yoga-power or the influx of the Divine Force. But very often this is not altogether possible, because the whole nature is not open or able to respond to the Force. The mind may have faith and respond, but the lower vital and the body may not follow. Or, if the mind and the vital are ready, the body may not respond, or may respond only partially, because it has the habit of replying to the forces which produce a particular illness, and habit is a very obstinate force in the material part of the nature. In such cases the use of the physical means can be resorted to,—not as the main means, but as a help or material support to the action of the Force. Not strong and violent remedies, but those that are beneficial without disturbing the body.” - Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Yoga - IV: Doctors and Medicines

When my friend returned from Pondicherry, he brought with him some medicine through which the Mother’s Force was to work. I used it for a week or so. Amazingly, the disease just walked away and I was sufficiently cured to come to the next Darshan falling on the 24th April. I remained in Pondicherry up to the 1st of May and by that date even the lingering remnants of the ailment vanished and I was entirely free from my sufferings.

Thus did the Mother not only cure me of my malady but also bring me into the light of her presence.