There are no physical reasons in your environment for illness. Bacteria and viruses…. they are present, yes. They do not harm you, they only serve as a catalyst that your body makes use of to talk to you. It is because you do not listen to your physical body that your body has to use this. If you do not wish for your body to use these external catalysts, listen to it more. Talk to it more. Love it more.

Look at this body as the greatest temple that there is, within which resides the God of all the Universes. Do not search for an external God. HE is within. SHE is within. IT is within; a spark that has separated from Divinity and is still ‘one’ with Divinity. Love this temple, look after it, not obsessively, not for the sake of vanity, but because God resides within. Everyday, open the doors of this temple and look within. Can you not see the cobwebs in that corner?  Can you not see that the floor remains unswept?  Can you not smell the bad odour of anger and pain? Once you can see it, smell it, and be aware of this, you will do what you do to all your external temples. You will at once, without any hesitation, begin the process of cleansing. But, where is the broom going to come from?  Where will you find the soap?  Where will you search for the swab?

You have a wonderful temple; within it lies all that is necessary for its cleansing. Pick up the broom of Universal Wisdom, and know that only you have the power to hurt yourself. Only you have the power to be joyous.  And only you are responsible for every pleasant and unpleasant experience in your life. Without this broom of wisdom, cleansing cannot even begin. Take this broom and sweep away at what angers you, at what hurts you. With every sweep, affirm---“I am the one. I am the one”. With every stroke, empower yourself ------“I am God. And I am His name.”

After the sweeping, the floor needs to be cleansed with soap.  All the dirt that lies stuck----of this and other lifetimes; of anger, fear, hatred, harshness, suppression, despair, judgement, resentment, revenge, vengeance, greed, must be scrubbed away using the soap of Surrender. How beautiful is this surrender because you surrender to none but yourself. The soap of surrender is not surrender to an enemy; it is not surrender to a Master. The surrender is to the ‘spark’ within. ‘I am God’------and when you ARE God, who else in this universe has power over you? With this soap of surrender clean away the grime, knowing that every moment of pain was chosen with complete, wilful, deliberate planning in the larger wisdom of a Higher Mind. Why did you plan thus? You planned because you wished to fall, to falter, to experience loss and defeat. You planned because you wished to experience a complete emptiness, so that out of this you could reach another higher level of consciousness.

After using the soap of surrender clean it all away with the swab ‘no resistance’.  No resistance, no pain. The temple is cleaned afresh. And then, you look within this temple and you see, seated in its very center, the Divinity that you have always searched for, but somehow never found.

Illness is your body communicating with you, in the only language that you understand, making you aware of the dirt within.