Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1. 1935

Letter ID: 1295

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

March 29, 1935

T’s hysteria has put my logic into hysteric fits... She had never had any fits before. It seems she was late for her work, by a few minutes and A gave her a severe rebuke before the other workers. Maybe this is the cause?

She had these fits, but milder, in Gujerat before she came here. Here they did not occur – this is the first time and a bad fit at that. She has had very often “fears” and other moods and imaginations which might be of a hysterical character,– it is difficult to say.

You will excuse my fear, I hope. But surely if one can be the cause of such a trouble and upset somebody – and a lady at that, and in the Ashram, in addition to the fact that one has plenty of these to bear in oneself, I don’t know really what could be done. You know, so I leave it to you.

Fear of what?

[Underlining “one”.]

Who is the one? in either case – A, you or X in general or in particular?

This is very mysterious language – can’t you be more explicit?