When one is normal, that is to
say, unspoilt by bad teaching and bad example, when one is born and lives in a
healthy and relatively balanced and normal environment, the body,
spontaneously, without any need for one to intervene mentally or even vitally,
has the certitude that even if something goes wrong it will be cured. The body
carries within itself the certitude of cure, the certitude that the illness or
disorder is sure to disappear. It is only through the false education from the
environment that gradually the body is taught that there are incurable
diseases, irreparable accidents, and that it can grow old, and all these
stories which destroy its faith and trust. But normally, the body of a normal
child – the body, I am not speaking of the thought – the body itself feels when
something goes wrong that it will certainly be all right again. And if it is
not like that, this means that it has already been perverted. It seems normal
for it to be in good health, it seems quite abnormal to it if something goes
wrong and it falls ill; and in its instinct, its spontaneous instinct, it is
sure that everything will be all right. It is only the perversion of thought
which destroys this; as one grows up the thought becomes more and more
distorted, there is the whole collective suggestion, and so, little by little,
the body loses its trust in itself, and naturally, losing its self-confidence,
it also loses the spontaneous capacity of restoring its equilibrium when this
has been disturbed.
But if when very young, from
your earliest childhood, you have been taught all sorts of disappointing,
depressing things – things that cause decomposition, I could say,
disintegration – then this poor body does its best but it has been perverted,
put out of order, and no longer has the sense of its inner strength, its inner
force, its power to react.
If one takes care not to pervert
it, the body carries within itself the certitude of victory. It is only the
wrong use we make of thought and its influence on the body which robs it of
this certitude of victory. So, the first thing to do is to cultivate this
certitude instead of destroying it; and when it is there, no effort is needed
to aspire, but simply a flowering, an unfolding of that inner certitude of
victory.
The
body carries within itself the sense of its divinity. There. This is what you
must try to find again in yourself if you have lost it.
-
The Mother
(CWM, Volume 9, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust,
Puducherry)
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