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is to be done so as not to catch it?... So the mind begins to
tremble: what is going to happen tomorrow? etc.
As for the vital, you feel it. You feel it in your sensations.
All at once you feel hot, you feel cold, you perspire or all
kinds of unpleasant things happen. And then you feel your
heart beating fast and suddenly you have fever and then the
circulation stops and you become cold.
Physically, well... When you do not any longer have the
other two fears, you can become aware of the physical fear.
Generally, the other two are much more conscious. They
hide the physical fear from you. But when you have no lon-
ger any mental or vital fear, then you become aware of it. It
is a curious little vibration that gets into your cells and they
begin shivering that way. But the cells are not like a heart
beating very fast. It is in the very cells: they tremble with
just a slight quivering. And it is very difficult to control this.
Yet it can be controlled.
CWM 5: 166-67

Moral condition and faith
There are sadhus, you know, who accept the condi-
tions of a dirty life through saintliness. They never wash
themselves, they have nothing about them that hygiene
demands. They live in a truly dirty condition – and they
are free from all illness. Probably because they have faith
and they do so purposely. Their spirit is magnificent.... I am
speaking of sincere people and not those who pretend. They
have faith. They do not think of their body, they think of the
life of their soul. They have no illness. There are some who
come to a state in which an arm or a leg or any part of the
body has become completely stiff due to their ascetic pos-
ture. They cannot move any more; anybody else would die

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