Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume IV - Part 3
Fragment ID: 15024
All that is quite wrong1. Illness is a wrong movement of the body and is no more to be cherished than a wrong movement of the mind or vital. Pain and illness have to be borne with calm, detachment and equanimity, but not cherished – the sooner one gets rid of them the better.
1 The correspondent wrote: “Some sadhaks hold the theory that illness is a thing to be cherished. It comes to us from the Divine who wants to test our faith by it. Illness makes us remember the Divine more often than otherwise. Therefore one should not even ask the Mother to throw it away from us. How do you regard this?” – Ed.