Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 3
Dr. Ramachandra gave me his correspondence (re. goitre of Raju’s mother) with you to read. Then it appears you have finally agreed it is cured. This evening he told me Rajangam’s hydrocele is all but cured! True?
I asked him en passant (rather struck by the last miracle, as I have never yet heard medicaments curing hydrocele) whether hernia too can then be cured. “Oh, yes” quoth he in the sweetest voice. I told him I had been operated on and the hernia reappeared. “Could such a case be cured?” I asked. He smile angelically and said, “Of course!” “Have you cured any hernia case?” I asked uncertain how to take his angelicity. “Not one, hundreds,” he said seraphically this time. I said, “Shall I then write to Sri Aurobindo and Mother? Will you give me a trial if they help?” “With pleasure, take your chance – and it is of course Mother’s force,” he added last of all.
What do you think of that? It seems from the correspondence you sent special force (re. Raju) as R. was committed. He has not been committed till now re. Dilip who I hope is a slightly better chappie than the octogenarial decrepit lady? Shall I get him committed and then let him appeal to you frantically or will you consent without that and help as you helped with Raju’s mother? Tell me frankly – to cut a long story short – if hydrocele and goitre can be cured may not hernia too be given a trial? Who knows? etc.
Yours wistful.
Very private
My correspondence with R. as regards Raju’s mother cannot 
have been about goitre, but about the whole case – goitre was only one of a dozen disastrous illnesses that she had; goitre was the least of them while you seem to give it the whole place. I know that the other ailments including senile imbecility and a habit of collapsing sideways when she walked are cured, because the family so certify. About the goitre I told you what I heard; I take it as cured because it was reduced to a minimum when I last heard of it and afterwards dropped out of the list of ailments reported in daily. About Rajangam’s hydrocele I know nothing except that some time ago he reported a great improvement – since then I am without news from the front and Rajangam himself has told me nothing.
As for R-s assurances about hernia, they seem to me angelical but indefinite, I know nothing about the capacity of homeopathy to cure hernia even acting as a means for the Force. As for the hundreds of cases of hernia that he has cured, you must not forget that he has lived and studied in America! The only thing to do is for me to ask him whether he is really prepared to take your case. All he said to you was about taking your chance – which is not too encouraging – generally when he is confident about a case, he is more ebullient in his expressions than that. However I will write to him and see.