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<font size="4">Diseases and Accidents</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style="text-align:justify; mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style="text-align:justify; text-indent:13.5pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><i>If
the body is ill, <span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Arial Narrow"'>does </span>the mind too fall ill?<o:p></o:p></i></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style="text-align:justify; mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">NOT necessarily, to .be
sure. Illnesses are, as I have told you, generally a dislocation among the
different parts of the being, a kind of disharmony. It may well be that the
body has not followed the movement of <span class=GramE>progress,</span> it
might have lagged behind while the other parts have, on the contrary, made
progress. In that case there is an unbalance, a breaking of harmony and that
produces an illness, I mean, in the body, for the mind and the vital also might
remain all right. There are many people who have been ill for years, suffering
from terrible and incurable diseases, and still maintained their mental power <span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>marvellously</span> clear and active
and continuing to make progress in that domain. There was a French poet, a very
good poet, named Sully <span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Prudhomme</span>;
he was mortally ill and it was during that time that he wrote his most
beautiful poems. He was always in a very good <span lang=EN-GB
style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>humour</span>, charming, smiling, <span
class=GramE>pleasant</span> to everyone even while his body was going to bits.
You may remember how the great Louis XIV used to joke and laugh, while, in his
last days, his body was being lacerated and given over to leeches by his
doctors and surgeons. It depends upon individual and individual. For there are
people of the other type who get thoroughly disturbed from head to foot if
there is the slightest bodily indisposition. Each one has his own combination
of the elements.</p>

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is of course a relation between the mind and the body, quite a close relation.
In most cases it is the mind that makes the body ill, at least it is the most
important factor in the ill-ness. I have said<span class=GramE>,</span> there
are people who keep their mind clear although their body suffers. But it is
very rare and very difficult</p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 320<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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class=GramE>to</span> keep the body healthy when the mind suffers or is
un-balanced. It is not impossible, but very, very exceptional. For I explained
to you that it is the mind which is the master of the body, the body is an
obedient and obliging servant. Unfortunately, one does not usually know how to
make use of one's mind, not only so, one makes bad use of it and as bad as
possible. The mind possesses a considerable power of formation and of direct
action on the body. It is precisely this power which is used by people to make
their body ill. As soon as there is something which does not go well, the mind
begins to worry about it, makes formations of coming catastrophes, <span
class=GramE>indulges</span> in all kinds of imaginary dangers ahead. Now,
instead of thus letting the mind run amuck and play havoc, if the same energy
were used for a better purpose, if good formations were made, namely, giving
self-confidence to the body, telling it that there is nothing to be anxious
about, it is only a passing unease and so on, in that case, the body would be
put in a right condition of receptivity and the illness pass away quietly even
as it came. That is how the mind is to be taught to give good suggestions to
the body and not to throw mud into it. Marvellous results follow if you do it
properly.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>When
an accident happens there is in it a critical moment. For example, you slip and
you fall. Now between the moment when you slip and the moment when you fall,
there is just a fraction of a second when you are, as it were, given the
choice. It can either be nothing or something very serious. Only to make the
choice you must have a perfectly awakened consciousness and your being must be
constantly in contact with the psychic. There is no time to bring in the <span
class=GramE>contact,</span> one must already be in contact. So, just between
the slip and the fall, if the mental and psychic formation is sufficient, you
come out unscathed. If, on the contrary, the body thinks, as it is its habit,
&quot;Oh, I have slipped&quot; and becomes apprehensive – it is, as I say, a
matter of a fraction of a second, even less – then the catastrophe happens. You
have the capacity to prevent an accident happening, you are given the choice at
a momentary moment. But for that you must learn to be wide awake, to be fully
conscious. When you are in that condition you can prevent an accident, you can
stop an illness coming into you. But it is just the matter of a split second
and you must not miss it.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 321<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And
yet there is still another moment. When you have fallen and are already hurt,
you have still now the open chance whether it will turn well or ill, whether it
will stop at being just a mishap or become something really serious or as
serious as possible. I do not know if you have noticed that there are certain
people who do not seem to miss any occasion for an accident. Every time there
is a possibility, they have it. And the accident is never <span class=GramE>slight,</span>
it tends to be serious and often very serious. People say, what an unlucky
fellow! Chance is never on his side! <span class=GramE>etc., etc.</span> But
all that is sheer ignorance. Everything depends absolutely upon the working of
the consciousness. I could cite any number of instances and such striking ones.
There are people who might have been killed but came out of the accident safe
and sound. There are others for whom what was quite harmless in the beginning
turns worse and worse and proves in the end, perhaps, fatal.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But
you must understand it is not the working of thought, ordinary thought. The
thought may be as good in one as in the other. It all depends upon the moment
of choice. There are people who know to react in the right manner and at the
right moment. It is the character that matters. Such people have a wakeful,
alert consciousness; they are not asleep, they are on the watch constantly
within themselves. And at the right moment they call for the aid, they invoke
the divine force, yes, exactly at the right moment. And the danger is warded
off. On the other hand, whenever there is something going wrong, some
dislocation in the being, if you are seized by fear, dark foreboding or
defeatism in the consciousness, then you are done for.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:12.95pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It
is not the mind, as I say, which decides. It is an inner attitude, a poise of
the being, the right consciousness which reacts in the right manner. Its effect
goes very far. You do not know what a power it is. Even if it is there just for
a fraction of a second, it works miracles. Only it must be there already, you
must be already in the state of wakefulness, you cannot order it at the moment,
<span class=GramE>you</span> have no time.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:12.95pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You
may say again that it is the Divine Grace that saves. But would you explain to
me how it works? It would be interesting, indeed, to find out who had precisely
the awakened consciousness, had the faith and the inner trust, <span
class=GramE>had</span> called<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 322<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>for</span> the help and had in him that which answered
automatically – and even in a way unconsciously – to something that came in.
Human intelligence is a relative thing and has varying degrees of power.
Usually it understands by contrasts and contraries. It does not understand a
truth in its absoluteness. For example, I have received hundreds of letters
thanking me because they were saved from dangers. But I do not remember to have
received a letter thanking me because things were normal and nothing had
happened. Men perceive the action of Grace only when there is the atmosphere of
the pessimist and there is a danger and they had escaped from it, that is to
say, when there is already the beginning of the accident, when the accident has
come to pass. When they come out of the danger safely only then they take note
of the force that saved. Otherwise they would not have even thought of it. If
the voyage they undertook came off without any accident they would not think of
any action of Grace present there. They would take it as a matter of course.
But precisely because it is so, there may be acting here a Grace of a higher
order and there may <span class=GramE>be existing</span> already a deeper
pre-existent harmony between the consciousness of the person and the higher
force to which it responds. The chance of an accident is already the beginning
of the dislocation I spoke of. But the situation becomes complicated if it is a
case of collective accident. The result here depends upon the atmosphere of the
persons involved. It is the proportion of these two elements in the personnel
of a collective accident that determines the character and magnitude of the
accident.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I
will tell you a <span class=GramE>story,</span> I mean a true story, in this
connection. There was a pilot who was considered what is called an <i>ace </i>among
his fellowmen in the first Great War. He was an extraordinary aviator and the
hero of many victories. Nothing had happened to him at any time. But towards
the end of his life, an event occurred – some private tragedy – and all at once
he had the feeling that something was going to happen to him; an accident
perhaps, and it was all finished with him. He had come out of the war but was
still in the army. He wanted to make a flight to <st1:country-region><st1:place>South
  Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region>, from <st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region>
right up to the south of <st1:place>Africa</st1:place>. He started from <st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and made for <st1:country-region><st1:place>Madagascar</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
so far as I remember, and then wanted to fly back to<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Now, my brother was at that time the Governor of Congo and needed to join his
post as soon as possible. He asked for a place in the <span lang=EN-GB
style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>aeroplane</span> of the pilot I am speaking
about. It was not a regular service plane, but one of those used for trial to
show what the machines were capable of and the skills of the airmen. Many tried
to dissuade my brother from making the journey, saying that these adventurous
trips were, always dangerous. My brother however did not mind the risk. Nothing
serious happened, but for a slight breakdown in the middle of the <st1:place>Sahara</st1:place>
which was easily got over, and the plane made safe journey and dropped him at
his place in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Congo</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
The plane continued further down, to <st1:country-region><st1:place>Madagascar</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
as I said. Now the pilot started back, he did half the journey, his plane
crashed and he was killed forthwith. I shall explain to you what really the
matter was. What happened had to happen, it was a foregone conclusion. My
brother had an absolute faith in his destiny, a certainty that nothing would
touch him. The consciousness of the other was on the contrary full of doubt and
apprehension. So the mixture of the two atmospheres brought about this that in
the first instance the accident could not be prevented, but it stopped short of
a catastrophe. But once the destiny of my brother was not there with the
machine, - like Caesar's destiny that made the boatman row safely across the
river through a storm – the protection was also withdrawn and the pilot had to
go down under the full blast of his bad fate. I can narrate another analogous <span
class=GramE>story,</span> it is with regard to a ship. There were two persons,
husband and wife. They went by air to Indo-China. They had an accident, a very
serious accident. All were killed except only these two. Now they had to return
to <st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region>. They
did not want to travel by <span class=GramE>air,</span> they had had an
experience of it. So they took a boat, I mean a ship, which they thought would
be quite safe. Now what happened was absolutely unexpected, quite extraordinary.
In the middle of the <st1:place>Red Sea</st1:place>, in broad daylight, the
ship struck against a reef and sank – a thing that does not happen even once
perhaps in a million cases. All the passengers were drowned except, miraculous
again to say, the couple. There are people like that – they carry misfortune
with them, but the misfortune is for others, they themselves escape some-how.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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you look at the thing in an ordinary way, you do not notice it. But the fact is
there. You must be very careful about your associations. An unfortunate
association may prove disastrous to you. The <i>karma </i>of others may fall
upon you, unless you have the inner knowledge, the vision and the necessary
power. If you see a person with something like a dark whirl around avoid him at
all cost. The moral of it all is that it is very useful to look into things a
little more deeply than to observe the surface only.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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