Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1936

Letter ID: 1724

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

September 13, 1936

Shall we put A on Sudarshan powder?

All right.

Try some Force please, A is getting disgusted, it seems!

Only getting? He is chronically disgusted, to my experience.

The hostile forces have made my life unbearable, sucking away every drop of blood gained after much pain and expense. Can’t sit outside, even for a minute, under the breezy, starry sky. Their breeding place is in the thick canna bushes Manubhai has planted. Can’t you direct him to strike them off and save my precious life? What will happen if the Asram doctor is to die of malaria?

My dear sir, Manubhai will have a fit and you will have to treat him and probably he will kill you into the bargain. You prefer a violent death to malaria? While there is life, there is hope, even if there are also mosquitos. Why not negotiate with Manubhai himself? If you plead with him in a sweet low pathetic voice, he may have mercy.

By the way, Shanta has consented to take the cod-liver oil after all,– so I have agreed to ask you for a whole bottle for her personal absorption. So send her a bottle of this divine but fishy nectar.