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patient from the seat of disease, they say, Disease does exist, but it is the concentration of the attention on the seat of disease which gives tis consciousness of pain. Mere diversion, however, will not remove the pain, only remove the consciousness of pain. If there were no disease the inind would not be led to feel the pain. If all is a part of the universal and omnipotent mind we should feel no pain. If we do not remove the cause of disease the disease will never be removed. There are primary, secondary and circumstantial causes. When the soul works on the physical plane it must make use of pł:ysical means, and requires many helps. With allopathic or homeopathic or any other treatment based on science, the effects will be good to a certain extent, but if the Karma is not ready to be dissolved no kind of treatment will do any good. If the patient himself is willing to be cured, all these causes will act together and the effect will be a cure of the disease. The objection in the first place of interfering with the Karma, is not valid according to our view. The second is that the theory of disease is not correct. If the only reason for this false view is to divert the patient's mind from the seat of disease, the false impression given to him in this way will injure his soul, and he loses in the end. You must explain to him the real meaning of death, which would produce the right knowledge and in the same way, in the case of disease, if it is explained that on account of having appropriated the body to itself it has fallen upon disease, and if the patient sees that the
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