DISEASE - Sri Paramahansa Yognanda

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DISEASE

 

There are three kinds of illness;

Physical,

Mental and

Spiritual.

 

Physical sickness is due to different forms of toxic conditions,

infectious disease and accident.

 

Mental sickness is caused by fear, worry, anger and other emotional

inharmonies.

 

Spiritual or Soul sickness is due to man's ignorance of his true

relationship with God.

 

Ignorance is the supreme disease. When one banished ignorance he also

banishes the causes of all physical, mental and spiritual disease.

 

Chemicals and medicines affect only the outer physical composition of

the body cells and do not alter the inner atomic structure of life

principle of the cells. In many cases no cure of disease is possible

until the healing power of God has corrected from within, the

imbalance of "lifetrons" or intelligent life energy in the body.

 

The basic causes of disease are under-activity and over-activity of

the life-energy, prana, that structures and sustains the body.

 

Harmful microbes are ceaselessly attacking the body; good ones are

ceaselessly defending it, aided sometimes by diet, herbs, medicines

and other health measures. But an unlimited source of protection for

man lies in his strong thought that, as a child of God, he cannot be

affected by disease.

 

(Parmahansa Yognanda, Lecture delivered at Self Realization

Fellowship Temple, Hollywood, California, August 31, 1947. Courtesy:

The Ideas Exchange, dated 16th July 2002)