Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1937

Letter ID: 1887

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

March 24, 1937

Y asked me if I had written to you anything about X, she would like to see your answers. Will you take the trouble, Sir, to cross the portions of your letters that I can show her?

[Sri Aurobindo twice underlined “cross” and “can”.]

Good Lord, sir, I can’t do that. You forget that I will have to try to read my own hieroglyphs. I have no time for such an exercise – I leave it to others.

Today I have written 3 poems, Sir, from 2.30-4.45 p.m. Remarkable, isn’t it?

Colossal!

N had fever in the evening again... Couldn’t find anything in the lungs. Still something incipient may be going on as he had already pleurisy. Anyway, we can give him some medicine – Ayurvedic or allopathic?

That’s the doctors’ business. Whatever has been good for him.

I took Sanganswami to the oculist. He will scratch the conjunctiva a little suspecting something there.

About the remedy I am afraid! [I suddenly took up N’s report.]

Afraid of what? Will make things worse?

But, I suppose, some nerve tonics, sedatives and gland products will have an effect...

I read with amazement – thought it was all about Sanganswami’s eye.

J says she makes no mental effort; tries to keep quiet, yet nothing comes down.

Difficulty of shunting the train.