Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1937

Letter ID: 1897

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

April 3, 1937

(1.30. p.m.)

I thought breast milk should be suspended for K’s baby, when you said that milk is heavy [31.3.37].

It was supposed that you meant cow’s milk. Mother’s milk, if the mother is healthy, is the best medicine for these things – Calomel is not to be given. Also it is better not to follow R’s advice in these matters or to try too many medicines. The mother’s milk and sleep are the most important things for cure – some medicine is a help at the most. More – too many medicines – make things worse rather than better. Anyhow what the Mother wants is for it to be possible for the mother and child to go to Madras tomorrow night with D. She has ordered K to that effect.