Can the Latihan Cure Illnesses?
"As for any illness you may be suffering from, perhaps some of you are wondering, "Could illnesses I suffer from be taken away from me and from my feelings through this worship, through this Subud latihan?" Bapak would like to explain that the purpose and aim in our worship, in our Subud latihan, is our worship of the One God who created us. As for any illness we might have, because we worship God without being influenced by our thinking mind, heart and desires, it means that our inner feeling is awakened, and of course, this awakening of the inner feeling will remove obstructions in all the various parts of our being. So there is a good probability that illnesses we have been suffering from may be cured and disappear from our inner feeling, and that we may be restored to the state of good health we had before. But you cannot be certain about that, because it is all in God's hands. We just surrender to God, have faith in God, and await God's grace. Whatever we have been suffering from can get better and be cured if God grants it.
Actually, the illness that is the most serious, and the one that human beings really cannot do anything to cure, is the sickness of the soul. But God can improve even a sick soul. So, any illness we suffer from in our physical body can certainly get better if we really surrender it to God, and God grants this to us."
Bapak
15 January 1960
Athens
Recording: 60 ATH 2