Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1936

Letter ID: 1778

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

November 17, 1936

Guru, any impression of Mother’s on my birthday? I am afraid I wasn’t calm but the whole day I felt peaceful.

Mother’s verdict is “Not at all bad – I found him rather receptive.” So, sir, cherish your receptivity and don’t humbug about with doubt and despondency and then you will be peaceful for ever!

Quinine was given to M.G. But I suppose it is not any more necessary, as is evident. I know your views against quinine but what can we give instead?

Don’t know. If it is a necessary evil, it must be administered, I suppose.

I return Z’s “epistle”, with thanks. Dr. Becharlal will look after the “Lila”, but are these people living in an illusory world of their own or are we in a sceptical world of ours? She says every atom is merging peacefully and beautifully into the wideness of the Mother, and yet this alarming “Lila” of the stomach and the whole body! Is the Spirit separating itself from Matter and enjoying all this, while giving an impersonal account of material suffering?

Z is a humbug and I don’t believe in her atoms. She has had experiences but on the mental and vital plane. It is only a real descent of the higher consciousness from above that can give a peaceful and beautiful merging of the atoms (?) into the wideness of the Divine – that is to say one feels the very cells sharing in that peace and wideness. This is possible even if the material body is ill. In most cases it is the subtle body that feels like that, but as the subtle penetrates everywhere the gross physical, the physical body also feels like that. But then it does not feel disturbed by the pains or motions of the illness – they do not affect its peace or Ananda.