Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1937

Letter ID: 1820

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

January 8, 1937

One misgiving is pressing heavily on my soul. I sense and feel and see that the tone of your letters has suddenly become very grave, rough, stiff and gruff – the owl-like severity with which you had once threatened me. I don’t know what I have done to deserve such a punishment. Or is it because you are getting Supramentalised day by day that you are withdrawing yourself so? There must be a reason if my “sense feel” is correct. Well, if you want to press me between two planks and pulverise me... Well, I don’t want it, you know!

I think your sense feel has been indulging in vain imaginations, perhaps with the idea of increasing your concrete imaginative faculty and fitting you for understanding the unintelligible. As you have now much to do with mystic poetry, it may be necessary. But why object to being pulverised? Once reduced to powder, think how useful you may be as a medicine, Pulv. Nirod. gr II. Anyhow disburden your soul of the weight. I am not owled yet, and my supramentalisation is going on too slowly to justify such apprehensions. Neither am I withdrawing, rather fitting myself for a new rush in the near or far future. So cheer up and send the Man of Sorrows with his planks to the devil.

I don’t understand why P wanted a letter of authority. Has she been made to wait or neglected?... I find that patients here, especially ladies, want to be served quickly – 5 minutes at the most! They can’t wait, they must go, they have work, etc., etc.

Important people, you see – necessary for the world action, লোকসংগ্রহায় চ¹, can’t be kept waiting.

A seems much reduced and has become a pucca hypochondriac. We have decided to keep him mainly on milk diet. Vegetables and dal don’t agree with him.

It seems to me that this ought to reduce him more and more. To my experience, not taking food simply eternises the dyspepsia. It is all right for a few days, but to make it a rule kills the stomach. Here I agree with R’s principle of reeducating the stomach and intestines. But all that is only a standpoint. If the medical Science does not admit it, I don’t insist.

And we shall give some assimilable form of cod-liver oil.

No objection to that –

Lastly, he must be given some sedentary work.

But he has his classes?

¹ lokasaṅgrahāya cha: And for holding together the people.

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