Are there any signs (e.g. the “inner voice”, intuition etc.) that make a decision easier? How to decide in the sense of the Divine will? What to do if one doesn’t know how to decide? And how to decide without being driven by fear and anxiety?

Human beings live in ignorance, ignorance of the deeper truths and forces that govern our lives, ignorant of the Divine Presence within, ignorant of the very goal of life. The doctors are no exception. They act out of goodwill but often an ignorant goodwill that does harm unwittingly given the fear and anxiety they often unwittingly inject in the patient. They also follow standard protocols that are very much the same everywhere. However the actual results vary and differ due to the patients inner state which is always in our hands. Instead of focusing too much on the details of the treatment and the possible side effects it is much better to live in a state of faith that all will be well regardless of all the outer upheavels. The source of this faith should be the presence of the Divine Grace for which nothing is impossible. Its touch can turn the worst into the best, difficulties into opportunities, fear into strength. It is this that will create the best possible inner conditions for the cure and use as well as override the doctor’s prescriptions. Here is a letter from Sri Aurobindo which shows us the way to navigate through every possible difficult situation in life. 

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The Mother – III

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To walk through life armoured against all fear, peril and disaster, only two things are needed, two that go always together—the Grace of the Divine Mother and on your side an inner state made up of faith, sincerity and surrender. Let your faith be pure, candid and perfect. An egoistic faith in the mental and vital being tainted by ambition, pride, vanity, mental arrogance, vital self-will, personal demand, desire for the petty satisfactions of the lower nature is a low and smoke-obscured flame that cannot burn upwards to heaven. Regard your life as given you only for the divine work and to help in the divine manifestation. Desire nothing but the purity, force, light, wideness, calm, Ananda of the divine consciousness and its insistence to transform and perfect your mind, life and body. Ask for nothing but the divine, spiritual and supramental Truth, its realisation on earth and in you and in all who are called and chosen and the conditions needed for its creation and its victory over all opposing forces.

Let your sincerity and surrender be genuine and entire. When you give yourself, give completely, without demand, without condition, without reservation so that all in you shall belong to the Divine Mother and nothing be left to the ego or given to any other power.

The more complete your faith, sincerity and surrender, the more will grace and protection be with you. And when the grace and protection of the Divine Mother are with you, what is there that can touch you or whom need you fear? A little of it even will carry you through all difficulties, obstacles and dangers; surrounded by its full presence you can go securely on your way because it is hers, careless of all menace, unaffected by any hostility however powerful, whether from this world or from worlds invisible. Its touch can turn difficulties into opportunities, failure into success and weakness into unfaltering strength. For the grace of the Divine Mother is the sanction of the Supreme and now or tomorrow its effect is sure, a thing decreed, inevitable and irresistible.’

Sending you my prayers for a smooth and speedy recovery.

Affectionately,

Alok Da