Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 4
Charu told me last night that Prithwi Singh and Venkataram have been indulging in innuendoes to the effect that I had made a fool of him with regard to his wife Bina. I am a little pained that Prithwi Singh who calls himself my friend should discuss such unlovely and malicious scandals with Venkataram. You know very well that I have long given up all that kind of thing and that I have been tested enough in Calcutta last year as well as this year without succumbing (through your grace and Mother’s) – beautiful women kept besieging me almost all the time but I have never behaved flirtatiously with them with the result that all of them have a deep reverence for you whose strength and grace have enabled me to behave as I did. But I will try to pass it calmly by – yogically – thinking that since such allegations are not true what does it matter? Still I say this as I thought I ought to bring such things to your notice.
It is impossible to prevent people from gossiping or from drawing the worst conclusions when man and woman are seen to associate together. The one thing important is that the imputations made shall be untrue and for the rest one need not care.
Vidya has written asking for darshan for her mother and also for a farther supply of petals like those you sent her. Will you write telling her that her mother has permission for November and sending her the petals?