On Illness

[In reply to a letter from a lady devotee:]  

I feel much pain to hear that you are suffering very much. Always think: I will recover. I am quite well. 
Our Master used to say, 'The poison of a snake ceases to affect us, if we can strongly deny the snake bite.'
(At Feet, PB Feb.1977, p.56)

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